Comments by "HomerOJSimpson" (@Homer-OJ-Simpson) on "VisualPolitik EN" channel.

  1. Presidents in the US are increasingly unpopular due almost entirely to the polarization of US politics. Approval ratings of 60%+ were common before because you could get 90% approval of your party voters and then 30%-40% support of the opposition party voters. They’re days the ceiling of what support you get from the opposition is shrinking and shrinking. Obama saw his support from republicans shrinking over time from about 20% down to 10% at the end. Trump was around 15% support at peak with opposition party voters and went down to 5%.. Biden is now seeing around 10% support. In addition, the Democratic Party has a split left vs moderate which is also causing drop in approval from the same party voters.
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  2. The US involvement in the middle-east is almost entirely to offset Iran's influence so Israel teaming up with Saudi Arabia and UAE with support from the US should help tremendously to offset Iran and reduce the US involvement in the region so they can 'pivot' to China and Russia.
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  3. While Russia being torn apart and divided is likely very little chance, if it does it will be in part because of jihadism. What wasn’t mentioned (unless I missed it) is that the Muslim minority have been overly represented in the mobilization. All of this could potentially end up causing such a huge a friction that we start seeing that community pull itself apart from Russia. But this is still a small chance.
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  4.  @zero-dollartrader6440  Rus talking points are always to bring up Syria -- despite Ruzzia being the one most heavily involved there. Such a weird thing I notice people bring up to defend Ruzzia.
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  5. Yes it can but its highly unlikely. No territory has the ability to fight and win independence. But I do believe there will be major problems in the years to come.
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  6.  @Greg-yu4ij  Did you repeat what Putin wanted you to repeat?
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  7. Taiwan didn’t need an auto mfg industry but yes, it helps a lot. My understanding is that auto manufacturing requires lots of secondary suppliers and is also generally high labor wages in addition to spurring innovation that can be used for other industries. It’s why China put lot of focus on it last few years …seeing what it did for Japan and South Korea
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  8. I found this video weird. They didn't truly show all the important metrics and facts such as how the gas and oil revenues dropped significantly towards the end even before the Dec 2022 price cap. They left out some other metrics and facts that would really show Russia's long term struggles but at the same time, they seem overly optimistic at Russia's eventual economic destruction. Russia will certainly be hurt in the long run but the video at times makes it appear as if Russias economies will eventually collapse or have much bigger damage than what might actually happen. It's really hard to tell what the long term damage will be -- if oil and gas prices hike up again, even with a price cap, Russia will not be hurt as much. But if oil and gas prices do not increase and say a global slowdown occurs bringing demand down for gas and oil, Russia's economy can tank. It's uncertain if many other nations will try to do business as usual with Russia in the long run or not. All I know is that unless it's an economic collapse, I don't see Putin stopping the war due to economic reasons. The sanctions will just make it harder to fund the war and get the materials and weapons they need to keep the war going at full scale.
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  9.  @eabutler6861  "A country just doesn't fall apart like that on its own" It does when consistently votes in leaders that then try to become dictators.
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  10. Even those not formerly colonized by France or even others have had major issues. Millions starved in North Korea. then look at Ethiopia.
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  11.  @caspermac  funny how most of the world wants to go to US universities and not chinas universities
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  12.  @franwex  Biden is under 40% approval, Trump was mostly around 42%, Obama was mostly 45%-47% but go back to Clinton and he was often around 60%. Reagan was often above 60%.
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  13.  @caspermac  nothing you say is honest. We can see university rankings and we can see where international students go and want to go. You’re just full of BS
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  14.  @Greg-yu4ij  SLAVA UKRAINI!
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  15. Latin America for sure is the most homogenous large area In the world. Same language, mostly same religion, most cities look similar (due to Spain city planning and architecture), and music and other cultural elements are shared across much of Latin America. Africa is the complete opposite lol. Genetically sub Sahara Africa is similar but that’s about it — so many languages and religions.
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  16.  @DimitarBerberu  I love that sarcasm. Nothing says 'high moral standards' like conc camps, no free speech, controlling all information, etc.
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  17. @Ibrahim Özgür Sucu the problem is Iran is is the Source if much of the conflict the region. But I guess you are okay with them being behind the groups trying to destroy Israel, supporting Assad, and supporting Houthis. Oh, trying to build nukes as well. The list goes on
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  18. You are right that western companies won’t put all their eggs in one basket but I will say “factory” doesn’t fit India aa well. They may eventually have half the factories as say China does now but India will also have lots of international service jobs that China doesn’t have in large part because *many Indians speak English. Call centers, IT, customer service for international companies, purchasing, etc. I have a manufacturing client in the US that has most of their accounting and Purchsing teams in India. That’s where much of Indias future is at. Edit: added “many” to the “many Indians speak English to clarify not all Indians but about 150 million Indians speak English
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  19. Western companies won’t put all their eggs in one basket but I will say “factory” doesn’t fit India aa well. They may eventually have half the factories as say China does now but India will also have lots of international service jobs that China doesn’t have in large part because Indians speak English. Call centers, IT, customer service for international companies, purchasing, etc. I have a manufacturing client in the US that has most of their accounting and Purchsing teams in India. That’s where much of Indias future is at.
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  20.  @caspermac  I’ve never seen a more uneducated and anti science person than you. “I don’t care what the rankings and the stats show…”
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  21.  @deezeed2817  you described a socialist scam not a capitalist scam - a government paying for more and more elderly retired people until the system crumbles. A capitalist model would be like Australia where it’s not on the government but employers and employees to pay for the retirement. The government requires employers pay X% of someone’s wages into a private retirement fund for the employee, like a 401k in the US.
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  22. I'm glad you guys brought up the nuances, ESPECIALLY the War impact on GDP. Fighting a war requires a lot of government spending and government spending is literally one of the measures used in GDP. The best thing to do is look at GDP without war spending since war spending is mostly to build things that will just be destroyed and don't improve the citizens life. The charts showing certain industries plummeting at 8:22 was a perfect example of the information needed to really tell the story. However, that chart was only trade with EU so we would need to understand Russia's total trade -- where they able to make up for that EU trade loss or was there still some net loss? What everything seems to suggest is Russia is slowly in decline and will have major financial issues the longer the war goes but Russia will not economically collapse and will continue to have modest GDP losses or zero gain though it can be argued that GDP losses after war spending is removed might be considerable but not collapsing considerable.
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  23.  @汝爱花否  prison rate in China is lower than US because they capital punishment 500x more people and China also doesn’t count the millions in camps as part of prison population.
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  24.  @srcolesl  do you think Serbia committed horrible war crimes and a ge-noc-îde 20-25 years ago un Kosovo?
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  25.  @汝爱花否  plündérïng p00r countries? PRC attempt to stéäl the Sea and it’s resources and shipping lanes from p00r countries Vietnam, Indonesia and Philippines is exactly that .
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  26. This is much worse than trump. Trump just tried to suggest to his supporters to do a coup — Castillo actually tried It himself.
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  27.  @davidford3115  Sure, but his wrinkles have grown in just one year. You can see the same with US presidents but Zelensky is aging at a much faster rate than US presidents who already age faster than the average person.
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  28.  @Kevin-mk6jo  wow, talk about anti-Semitic. If you actually think the Iranian regime is more trustworthy than the the Israeli regime with nukes, then maybe you’re the type that still wishes the man with the little mustache had won ww2. And you’re not behind honest saying Jews have never lived on that land before nor are you honest about how and why Jews in large numbers ended up there between 1900-1950.
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  29.  polymechanos  bro, not sure if you’re stupid or was just joking. Nazis weren’t socialist....anymore than Democratic Republic of North Korea isn’t a democratic republic
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  30.  @roderickwhitehead  yes, it’s the leftist that don’t like open honest discussions — not the right wing who openly support the biggest liar ever to be president
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  31. I don’t know how this video got it wrong. I’m no expert on Pakistan but I know Punjabi’s speaks Punjabi and that Urdu was Chosen as the national language so it doesn’t look to favor the biggest ethnic group, Punjabis. Also, not sure what you meant by undivided India. I’m assuming you mean the India in 1947? Because historically, greater India was not undivided but many different nations or states.
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  32. Sounds a lot like Russia where Putin’s main support is rural and smaller cities along with people over 50 everywhere but in the big cities, those under 50 seem to anti Putin
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  33. I am hoping that this massive money aid comes with major corruption reform because Ukraine has some well educated people and can becomes the next Estonia if they rid their corruption.
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  34. Presidents in the US are increasingly unpopular due almost entirely to the polarization of US politics. Approval ratings of 60%+ were common before because you could get 90% approval of your party voters and then 30%-40% support of the opposition party voters. They’re days the ceiling of what support you get from the opposition is shrinking and shrinking. Obama saw his support from republicans shrinking over time from about 20% down to 10% at the end. Trump was around 15% support at peak with opposition party voters and went down to 5%.. Biden is now seeing around 10% support. In addition, the Democratic Party has a split left vs moderate which is also causing drop in approval from the same party voters.
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  35. Biden is under 40% approval, Trump was mostly around 42%, Obama was mostly 45%-47% but go back to Clinton and he was often around 60%. Reagan was often above 60%.
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  36.  @Sami1973  Who, you?
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  37.  @HimanshuSharma-oe4mk  great point. India doesn’t need all 1.4b to speak English to have major impact. If 150 million speak English and most young educated people are growing up speaking English, that will mean the number of educated Indians able to speak English will continue to grow and could surpass the US with most English speakers. In comparison, young people in China do learn some English but most of them speak it very terribly unless they are from a rich family. I’m not sure how accurate Indian movies are but I watch many of them and what I noticed is how often people switch to English y on occasion. It’s far more prevalent in Indian movies than movies from any other countries. Even if it’s not accurate (that many Indians switch to English on occasion) it demonstrates the importance of English none the less. Watch a movie from Latin America and they will almost never switch to English even for a moment unless they are dealing with a character that only speaks English. It might have a lot to do with india having a diverse group of people speaking so many languages that English is often used as a commons language. In Latin America or east Asia or most countries there is just one main language that almost all the people speak so learning the international language of English isn’t that important.
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  38.  @roderickwhitehead  so you might vote for the biggest liar there is...and you complain about people not wanting to have honest discussions? WTF?!?!
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  39. But Chinas aggression is exactly why Japan is building up their navy. So China should expect a resurgence in Japanese military.
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  40. Benson Chan you mean pushing smart economic and political agendas? Surely you can actually explain what they got wrong in the video rather than just saying it’s pushing a neoliberal agenda
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  41.  @Chou-seh-fu  he is paid to defend china. Well, V acts like it. He subscribed to a few YouTubers who are working for the Chinese government to defend China
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  42.  @Superpooper-2020  the fake Indian account that is actually Chinese. Game is obvious
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  43. You are back!!! We have been worried but considering your other language videos still stayed up I knew you guys didn’t do anything bad and just had Techinical issues
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  44. @Ibrahim Özgür Sucu in addition , Saudi Arabia is quickly moderating. It’s progressing.
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  45. I am hoping that this massive money aid comes with major corruption reform because Ukraine has some well educated people and can becomes the next Estonia if they rid their corruption.
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  46. Japan, an enemy that actually attacked us first quickly became our major ally in Asia. Germany, who started world war 2 European theater was also a major ally shortly after. It happens
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  47. After Carefully watching and completing this 23 min video 3 min after it was released, I will have to disagree. Dogs and cats will not rule the world by 2100.
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  48. Yet you have an idea that Japan will become 1930’s Japan. Ha ha, good one mr Beijing
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  49. @tomislavr7, ​ do you think Serbia committed horrible war crimes and a ge-noc-îde 20-25 years ago un Kosovo?
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  50.  @junkeatng  why do you watch Daniel Dumrill and The Barrets? And why won’t you just say what’s happening in Xinjiang?
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  51.  @caspermac  oh, so to you it doesn’t matter that all the International rankings have US far more ahead and the fact that US has almost 4x more foreign students and the fact that 1/3 of the foreign students in the US are from China. Somehow chinas universities are about equal or better because you feel so. Got it.
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  52.  @jeffs4483  the constitution doesn’t allow it which will why the congress was able to arrest Castillo. And that includes majorly of his own party or allied parties.
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  53. Unfortunately that won’t happen but that would be ideal
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  54.  @Davyjones5454  technically there are numerous parties but the system is designed so that major parties have too much control so you end up with two parties representing 98% of politics. One mor major party would make a world of difference so thus 2 of the 3 can work together on a specific legislation and get it done. As if is, one party can often block the other party from passing a piece of legislation Still 100x times better than China where there is only one true party and only the elites of that party do the real voting.
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  55.  @antr7493  i swear there are people paid to bring up Mr Mitchel History. I’ve seen people bring it up in a lot of these geopolitics channels in the past two weeks. 4th comment I’ve seen. It’s not a big channel either.
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  56.  @chukim8012  not a big difference if you’re here on behalf of the CCP. But other than that, yes, huge difference. Besides working for the Chinese government, why do you think it’s not a big difference?
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  57. Qatar is bad but China makes them look like angels
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  58. Yes, Japan doesn’t have to top Chinas military, just be trouble enough for china that China won’t proceed with any attack. Plus they got support from the US so gives a Japan the advantage.
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  59.  @titaniumskunkogkush4365  Japan should be humble? Good one Mr a Beijing. How’s the weather in China?
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  60.  @JordanHarbingerShow  you’re dealing with a user that is literally unable to criticize the Chinese government — a vvumao either paid or doing it for free. Love your podcasts too!
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  61.  @ChinaSongsCollection  guy defending everything about PRC also defends news org unable to criticize PRC. Shocking
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  62.  @黄沙百战穿金甲  China doesn’t have enough arable lands which is why they need such a large reserve because one bad thing and it’s the great famine part 2
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  63.  @汝爱花否  and what do you mean for maximum efficiency? How is the world made better with Ch-na taking the seas from its neighbors? Or helping Rus in its invásî0n of a peaceful country? Or învádïng pèâcefûl country of Táiwän?
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  64. Great video. Points out where the exaggerations on the topic exist but also the parts that are accurate. In summary, Qatar workers aren’t dying at the rate most often reported but it’s true that a modern day version of slavery with traps to keep the workers as slaves. also true that qatar gas made changes and more to come. the changes seem to be a big improvement but much more needs to be done.
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  65. Furthermore, you’re comment sounds too much like what ayatollah supporters would say…”just keep the status quo forever”. In the long run, revolutions overthrowing an unelected leader often lead to better country.
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  66. How do you pronounce it? I think I’m pronouncing it something like “new-clear”.
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  67. Remember when Japan’s economy stagnated starting in the 90’s due to a rapidly aging population— China will see the same and it will happen before they get to upper income like Japan. Chinas population is expected to peak in the 2040’s but their working age population might peak soon.
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  68. I see u defending Putn in other comments
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  69.  @antr7493  doubled checked, Mr Mitchel History has 9k subscribers. It’s an okay channel, I happened to look at 2 videos a couple months ago which is probably why I noticed the name in the past 2 weeks being brought up. But it’s not anywhere near on part with Caspian Report, Visualpolitik, William Spaniel (Ukraine Russia war news only) and Professor James Ker-Lindsay who I just discovered two weeks ago and might be my new favorite. He’s from some prestigious London university (London school of economics?) and his expertise is literally geopolitics. I think he made an insightful comment in this channel or Caspian report which is how I found him.
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  70.  @MilanTheMan69  "Do you as Americans prefer warmonger preside" Are you saying China isn't the warmonger with surrounding Taiwain with military ships and shooting missiles? Sounds a lot like a w8ma0
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  71.  @randomcommenteronyoutube1055  Yes, that's what I expect. A slow decline of Russia that will make it harder for Russia to fight a full fight but it won't lead to Putin giving up because there will need to be an economic collapse, which won't happen. The hope is that a weakened Russia leads to Ukraine slowly taking back it's lands.
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  72.  @PiousPriest  that was a very long way for to say racism isn’t really a big deal today and thus confirmed being a r-cist.
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  73.  @Air-bear  I’m not informed? In another comment you suggested japan would repeat 1930’s military aggression and here you say “we have no idea” when it comes to China.
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  74.  @bldomain  yeah, I should have said 140 million speak English. That is the country with the 2nd most English speakers. They don’t need to speak perfect English to do IT or purchasing or accounting work. And if only half of those speak English well, that’s still 70 million which is more than UK and double Canada.
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  75.  @TheGoldenEagle03  the war games are specifically stacked against the US. It’s meant to be a worst case situation. Educate yourself
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  76.    are you really stupid enough to call nazis socialist? And you base it on the fact that Nazi has socialist in the name? Then using your own stupid logic, the Democratic Peoples Republic of North Korea is a Democratic government!!
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  77.  polymechanos  you can’t be stupid enough to say the US isn’t a democracy? Also, the full name of the USA is “United States of America” so it doesn’t even say it’s is socialist, democracy, etc
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  78. "As any other country, China will act in self-interest " Sure, but that seems like an excuse for any self-interest. Their interest are dangerous to the world which is also why it shouldn't have been a surprised they didn't remain neutral. Europe will be the real challenger but that's good. China and Russia will have trouble actually making serious allies and what RUS has done in Ukraine and how CN has acted towards Europe and others in East Asia, it actually strengthened 'the west'.
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  79.  @黄沙百战穿金甲  grain reserves? So that means you don’t make it and rely on imports. How long do those grain reserves last if China is cutoff from more supplies?
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  80.  @ChinaSongsCollection  I’m very surprised guy defending everything about PRC is Chinese himself. So surprising
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  81.  @herrwolf5184  what do you believe? That supporting Rûs învàsïon of UKR makes the world Better? Or the conc camps make the world better? Or stèálîng the south sea from its p00r neighbors makes the world better? Or învádíng peaceful country like Táïwn makes the world better? Or how they don’t have free speech or free press or ability to protest?
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  82. The name is Simon Whistler. He was balancing some 5 or so channels and he stated in a podcast he was never that into politics so he decided to leave this channel and concentrate on his other channels. I don’t know if he owns any of the channels or just hired narrator though. He didn’t do any research for this channel. I miss him but new guy is growing on me
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  83. Nah, warlords in Afghanistan and Pakistan aren’t likely to do much because the options here are ayatollah is removed and replaced with democracy keeping the country unified or everything stays the same.
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  84. Vĩnh Long 永隆 yeah, and Vietnam is now a fast growing successful economy because they dumped communist and have pivoted to a capitalist economy. Same with Ethiopia. Same with Poland. Etc You ever ask yourself why communism always fails? It failed in the USSR, China, N Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba? And don’t say because the rest of the world didn’t trade with them. Indian was a major trading partner with the USSR. USSR, China and India and 3 of the top 3 to 5 most resource rich nations which means they had the resources available.
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  85.  @NickSteffen  Let’s all ignore that the US has tariffs of 25% on steel, 10% aluminum, 25% on trucks, 15%-30% washing machines, 15% on solar panels, shoes (historically 37%+), and so much more. And also subsidize on many farm and agricultural products, oil, And also require the U.S. government to purchase American‐made materials for the purposes of public construction plus many other similar programs.
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  86. They are competing but not closest competition. They are both visual content programming which take up our viewing entertainment much like McDonald competes with chipotle. They aren’t as direct competitors like Burger King vs McDonald’s but they are still restaurants offering quick food.
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  87. I agree with what Germany was doing — until 2014 when Russia sent its military into Ukraine. After that, Germany should have started to build up its military
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  88.  @thomasherrin6798  The problem is that somebody is likely to bail them out, at least partially. And it's possible that gas and oil prices rise which would mean Russia isn't hit as hart economically. But it's also possible global slowdown could lead to lower gas and oil prices which would hurt Russia.
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  89.  @PiousPriest  and just to see where you stand — do you believe they racism is still a big issue in the US or do you believe that racism isn’t much of a problem in the US?
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  90.  @peepeepoopyhead510  that other guy with the mustache in red also expelled many Jews so I can see why he liked Soviets
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  91.  @Kevin-mk6jo  “let’s not dismiss the valid points I made while I made hateful comments and misleading statements at times”. That’s you
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  92.  @nbarnechea  just a guess but is the support for communism or leftist weaker in Lima than the poorer inland areas?
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  93.  @SeeLasSee  I'm referring to the recent war with over 600,000 fatalities. And the famine from a few decades ago was in part to the govt making it difficult to get food to the people -- it's happening again. From AP >The United States Agency for International Development suspended all food assistance to the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray “until further notice” while it investigates the theft of humanitarian supplies. The U.N. confirmed earlier reports that it was doing the same.
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  94.  @RS-ls7mm  8 languages but basically 70% Spanish 25% Portuguese and 5% others. Btw, Latin America usually only covers the Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries.
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  95.  @junkeatng  “the rhetoric of EU and US has also faded as Russia is making gains”. Wow, spotted a paid account. 3 high profile leaders of the EU just visited Ukraine last week, that includes France Germany and Italy leaders. And they recently passed an EU bill to ban all Russian oil by the end of the year. And the US just approved another major round of aid to Ukraine. No surprise the guy who subscribes to Chinese govt paid YouTubers is also not being truthful about Ukraine - Russia
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  96.  @黄沙百战穿金甲  eat one less dish next week then an additional less dish the following until no more food
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  97.  @黄沙百战穿金甲  u the guy posing as a Uyghurs but actually Chinese? Why do u defend g8noc1de in Xinjiang?
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  98.  @maxyogi  hello vvumao. Most of what Australia exports is raw materials or foods which is globally traded and new buyers can be found, though might have to sell it a little lower. My point is that Australia doesn’t depend on China as much as the basic economic trade data shows.
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  99. Lots of manufacturing is moving from China to Vietnam and India and Bangladesh. Head quarters of major international Chinese firms are moving away from China and to places like Singapore.
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  100.  @johnny9092  " Struggles, yes but they are winning now. " They won a few square km of land after losing hundreds of sq km. Also, Ukraine is getting MUCH better weapons in a few months including advance tanks, missile defense systems (Patriot), and longer range missles than the 50 miles / 80km Himars with a new Himars missles that will be 100 miles / 150km.
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  101.  @PseudoProphet  greater India (what we now know as India Pakistan Bangladesh) was probably never undivided until the Brits. India we now know was rarely undivided and almost always a few different nations or whatever the appropriate term would be (state?).
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  102.  @hippieha3583  "they" is the US not the whole group.
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  103.  @peterwarner553  it matters a lot what China says otherwise Australia gets bullied around. It’s in Australias best long term interest to form stronger alliances with pacific nations and to stand up to China.
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  104. Slava Ukraini
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  105. But then it wouldn’t be able use it against Rus. Or is your point that you’re pro-Russia? Slave Ukraini
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  106.  @kurosai006ichigo3  Basically what your saying is that facts don't matter to Kurosai and made things up. The RMB (Yuan) is the 5h most traded currency. In terms of currency reserve, The RMB is also 5th at only 2.7% vs US 58%. The reasons nobody wants to use the RMB are detailed by OP. >China gets foothold in other nations just as US does (US gives military, US benefit lore military bases.China builds in construction and nation building China debt traps. Give bad loans then forces them to vote for them in UN all while IMF ends up bailing many of those loans.
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  107.  @commie5211  " but yuan can actually buys everything people needs." No it can't. The RMB is controlled by CN in how much is available to be sold / bought and since others don't have faith in RMB, they won't accept it. US dollar is accepted everywhere in the world and that's why CN itself trades almost entirely in US dollars.
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  108. This is not at all serving Saudi Arabia’s long term interests. This is bad for KSA. Dictators seem to be increasingly making bad decisions.
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  109.  @hkchan1339  the decline in the ceiling was happening before social media but it seem to accelerate with social media / internet. In the 90’s New Gingrich began the culture wars and began the divisive politics that would morph into the tea party in 2009/10 and then the trump party of today. But around 2009 and after starting with the tea party it’s when everything just crumbled. Each side became more entrenched in their side.
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  110. Coincidence? I think n..so.
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  111.  @davidford3115  Let’s all ignore that the US has tariffs of 25% on steel, 10% aluminum, 25% on trucks, 15%-30% washing machines, 15% on solar panels, shoes (historically 37%+), and so much more. And also subsidize on many farm and agricultural products, oil, And also require the U.S. government to purchase American‐made materials for the purposes of public construction plus many other similar programs.
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  112.  @davidford3115  Oh, so you're argument is that I am right about those tariffs from the US has but since the video says the US isn't entirely closed off or that it's still mostly free trade, it means you can criticize Europe for doing the same thing the US does?
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  113.  @davidford3115  But like a typical American, you chose to ignore the dirty little details that destroy your narrative. This coming from an American
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  114. If Ukraine gained experience fighting since 2014, who where they fighting and why didn’t they get experience?
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  115. They weren't losing money for a while but now they are. They bought the lands from the government at a high price or bought lands from others at a high price. They then have to spend money developing it and then the market no longer wants to pay a profitable price so they the developers and buyers (home owners) are losing out.
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  116. @MSD Group “ if Russia’s economy is so bad this year how could the IMF make a prediction that Russia will be the 9th strongest economy on earth?” Because you’re using how big an economy is rather than its growth or decline. Seriously? You’re basically saying India has a better economy than Switzerland because of the size of India. What’s the temperature in Moscow today?
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  117. Socialist, keep in mind cuba doesn’t produce oil and Venezuela even at its peak was producing far less than Saudi Arabia. I’m not sure the relevance of either to the topic especially Cuba.
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  118.  @carlramirez6339  Yes, but I left those out because they are much smaller economies. Even Taiwan is not as big as SK but it's still about 50% the size at 24m or so. Singapore, Israel, Ireland all under 10m population. Makes me wonder what larger countries (if any) recently went into upper income without a decent automotive industries
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  119.  @shotikoo  no way you’re Georgian. Blaming Georgia for everything and then criticizing EU but not Russia? Wow, how is Moscow today?
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  120.  @subutai999  lol, nice catch. These Ruzzians are everywhere. What you caught with is like catching someone pretending to be Ukrainian then spells “Kiev” rather than Kyiv.
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  121.  @davidford3115  " It's hard on the furniture, and hard on the people." I don't get it --hard on furniture? But yes, that was my point that that he's aged a lot because he's not only president but because he's been under seige for 6 months. He aged more in the first 6 months of the war than he did in the prior 2 years as president.
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  122. So you think Germany is still like Adolph’s 1930’s and think South Korea is a dictatorship??
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  123.  @Air-bear  how is Beijing today? Or is Moscow?
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  124.  @Naveen-tq7cg  are you in Beijing or Moscow?
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  125.  @neldenscarlet9570  if you make a comment about China, you will have CCP trolls responding to you.
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  126.  @thelonegerman2314  and you believe in authoritarian oppressive rule?
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  127.  @Air-bear  game is obvious Mr Beijing. Or is it Mr Moscow?
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  128.  @milutinstankovic1560  Haha...you support gen-cide!
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  129.  @valyshknee4203  " they did almost none compared to us and bosnia like, dude, our countries". What? All the research and investigations found that Serbia did the most. The fact you mention Muslims tells me you are a far right winger or Serbian.
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  130.  @dustintacohands1107  “I don’t care for trump” is a lot like saying that you aren’t bothered by someone that cussed an insurrection, spread mis info on election results, and was a danger to everyone in congress.
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  131.  @BOIOLA08  exactly. It’s only important as a back up route but it’s super expensive and not practical other than in time of need.
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  132.  @BOIOLA08  exactly. And even then, it only provides some relief because no way it could replace even half of what Chinas has coming through those straights near Malaysia.
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  133.  @RS-ls7mm  it’s kind of odd to disagree that relative to other large regions, Latin America isn’t the most homogeneous.
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  134. This folks is Russian paid account, Navin KV. In other comments defending Russia in Ukraine and criticizing Ukraine while here he describes the US as if it’s still the Cold War. The US hasn’t sent troops into Latin America in many years.
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  135.  @navinkv7024  SLAVA UKRAINI!
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  136.  @navinkv7024  i proved my point. You defend Russia in Ukraine
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  137. China is supporting Russia by spreading Russian disinformation and blaming the west and US for the war. However, they are not militarily supporting nor voting in support of Russia at the UN. China signed a $117b energy deal and made an anti west friendship pact with “no limits” with Russia when Russia had 150k troops ready to invade in Feb. China thought russia would win the war in days and but that backfired and China is trying repair their image by downplaying their actions in support of Russia.
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  138.  @Kevin-mk6jo  AQ was based in Afghanistan and most of their attacks were planned and financed in Afghanistan. However, Those that Carried out the 9/11 attack were recruited in Saudi Arabia
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  139. Taiwan is recognized as a country in practice by the vast majority of the world. Just because they don’t recognize it in the UN in order to not upset baby bully China doesn’t mean they treat Taiwan as a country.
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  140.  polymechanos  are you this stupid? Show me proof that the Democratic Party in the US doesn’t support having the US a democracy?
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  141.  @underdogtv2855  yes, all the data is conspiring to make China look bad because China Good.
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  142. What CN and Rus are doing are driving more countries to strengthen their relationship with the US and/or west. Vietnam & Phillipines but you can see concerns about China from Malaysia and Indonesia as well which will only move them more towards the west. But there will be a collection of countries that will join Rus-CN, mostly a few authoritarian middle east and authoritarian African countries.
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  143.  @JordanHarbingerShow  yes, the recipient gets the notification and can see the comment in their notification but no one else can see the comment. I’ve noticed many times my comments don’t show up if I spell out the “gen” “ocide” word. Only noticed it when I used desktop and logged off because if you don’t log off, the comment appears to be there for person who made it. Even talking about comments being removed often gets auto removed
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  144.  @jeremygibbs7342  You're replying to someone who has no intent of having an honest discussion. He talks about the west as if it's still plundering the low income countries while his country (Chna) is literally plundering the seas and trying to take it away from low income countries like Vietnam, Philippines, and Indonesia.
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  145.  @jeremygibbs7342  I'm mixed on whether those type of people will ever change their opinion. He's completely buying every CCP talking point so I doubt he cares about other opinions. That said, it still is important for other readers of these comments to correct these bad faith arguments
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  146. Blackwater is not the same as Wagner. Blackwater is not under the control of the US government— they are a private that was hired often by the US but the company also took jobs that were not in the interest of the US. Wagner is indirectly under control of Putin and does what’s in the interest of Putin. As a result, Wagner is also sometimes a leader in an operation such as what they did in Donbas in 2014 and after. Blackwater provided additional support for the US in two wars but were not the first to arrive in those countries and were hired as support — often to work security for military personnel or security for some location. Other than that, they do have lots of similarities as you would expect from private contract forces.
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  147. Just as I clicked on a video about how polarized US politics is, I get a pro Trump political ad using lies about Biden
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  148.  @piruz3243  French Revolution eventually lead to democracy. As bad as Russia is today it’s much better the the even more oppressive USSR. Cubas and irán revolution weren’t a democrat one. But most democracies today became democracies through revolutions either small or large or fighting against their foreign government. Almost all the Americas for example. Much of Africa. Most European countries.
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  149.  @ruleoftwo6174  I would say the China only cared about money before. With Xi, it’s far more nationalist and Chinas economic growth is shrinking fast so Xi appears to be trying to gain support like Putin — with aggressive foreign policies.
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  150. No you won’t. There a HUGE differences between the two. Qatar was basically finding ways to trap them in Qatar. Do you work for Beijing or Moscow?
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  151.  @ChinaSongsCollection  hey, why don’t you tell us what’s going on in Xinjiang to demonstrate for us that you aren’t the nationalist (or vvumao) that is unable to criticize China?
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  152.  @黄沙百战穿金甲  Free Xinjiang! Free Tibet! Free Hong Kong! Free West Taiwan!
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  153.  Chí Phèo nguyễn  you aren’t very smart if you think communist countries like the USSR, China etc didn’t interfere with capitalist nations. Both sides did the same...and who easily won? The capitalist west because their economic policies were more successful
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  154.  Chí Phèo nguyễn  bro, you dumb or what? Covid19 is 2020 and we are talking about the Soviets and communist China (before they turned capitalist). What’s going on with you?!? Communist China and USSR were not governments that cared for their people. Stalin and Mao each killed tens of millions of their own people!!
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  155.  @propro2211  and There is also India and Bangladesh. Chinas growth is shrinking fast.
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  156. Should they have waited until day before elections?
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  157. Did he say Poo research center instead of Pew?
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  158.  @Bill-zp2mt  Donald trump is a case of its own. This channel is hard on the Bernie types and Trump types. So if it’s strongly left, why are they hard on Bernie and AOC? Lots of right of center in Europe also dislike trump. Iirc, around 30% of conservative voters in the UK would pick trump over Biden and 70% chose Biden
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  159. Vice News caught on video Chinas massive bribing operation tied to the leader of guayana. If Guyana is so easily corrupted, this tells me Guyana will just be another Venezuela- never turning the oil into big profits for the people.
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  160. It’s not doing better than most of European economies — it shrank 3% last year. And the gdp is misleading because Russia spent $100 billion in the war which is considered part of gdp. That’s nearly 6% of gdp so their actual gdp minus the war would be -9% or even lower.
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  161. Totally believe the guy criticizing Ukraine and defending China frequently in other comments. Totally believe you.
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  162.  @GeoScorpion  great point. After ww1, you didn’t see many countries trying to conquer new lands. In ww2 you saw Soviets, Germany, Italy and Japan trying to conquer new lands. In immediate aftermath of ww2, Soviets took by force either incorporated into USSR or occupied puppet states almost all of Eastern Europe (Yugoslavia appeared to be independent but they were already friendly with Soviets). The US and UK basically gave the freedom to west Germany, France, Italy, China, and basically all the territory they freed from Germans and Japanese. China then took Tibet and today is trying to take not only Taiwan but South China Sea and East Sea. Russia today is trying to take Ukraine.
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  163. Slava Ukraini
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  164.  @azoshin  I'm sure you know but Kurosai006 was arguing in bad faith. It's almost like they ignored everything you wrote and stuck to a script
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  165.  @mclilzenthepoet2331  the economic policies are also very different among the two though but the social issues are the much bigger divide now. Economically the Democrats support higher taxes and bigger government spending than Republicans
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  166.  @hughjass1044  If it happens, it won't be a case of fighting and winning indepdence. But Moscow will not allow it anytime soon so a peaceful breakaway from any is not likely to happen in the foresable future. 100 years from now, sure it has some possibly but still small IMO.
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  167.  @kdawg9477  "they cannot be everywhere at the same time" except that the only places that would breakaway are a handful of territories. They don't have to be everywhere.
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  168.  @PlumSack79  they always show up for any content about China. It’s probably from the same CCP farm
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  169.  @TheGoldenEagle03  Yes, they actually have a bond that is much more trusthworthy. They West is united and with mostly a common goal. Rafael from Moscow needs to ask himself why nearly all the top 40 in the democracy index are the west and it's allies?
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  170. Vice News caught on video Chinas massive bribing operation tied to the leader of guayana. If Guyana is so easily corrupted, this tells me Guyana will just be another Venezuela- never turning the oil into big profits for the people.
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  171. Long term it’s hard to tell because short term, it’s easy to turn some of those profits to the most obviously needed infrastructure. But as I pointed out, China has a massive bribing operation in Guyana caught on video. This means It’s likely little by little will be draining away at Guyanas potential and they will hit a ceiling at some point unless they rid corruption in their government.
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  172.  @lvd8122  there is video from Vice news of a massive bribing operation of China inside of Guyana so the future doesn’t look good. Right now it’s easy go spend on the easiest infrastructure projects but a decade from now, such corruption will eat away at their potential.
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  173. This video and many others on this give you china 101 explanation but there are channels giving much more specific content on this issue.
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  174.  @tiagogomes3807  no where else in the world outside of China has construction of homes been used like China has them. Where 70% of savings are put, 30% of gdp, and far far more homes than homes needed. Many cities in China have cost of homes 50x or higher than the local incomes. 5 of the top 8 highest cities in the world are in China alone. What that means is that a drop in the housing in China will be much bigger effect than just anywhere else in the world.
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  175. This is much worse than trump. Trump just tried to suggest to his supporters to do a coup — Castillo actually tried It himself.
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  176.  @jeffs4483  but why do you defend Castillo coup attempt? Authoritarian leftist are the w0rst. I see you in other comments calling it a coup against Castillo
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  177.  @noahjohnson935  The biggest problem with that thinking of those people is that the truth slowly erodes and eventually they are just brain (cant combine words - washed.
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  178.  @noahjohnson935  Example of Putin. he helped out initially by stabilizing the country though a big part was just the fact oil prices doubled in his few few years. Overtime, they have had stagnant economy with rights eroded. Now, they believe that their current situation is the best it will get because that the only thing they hear in their media.
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  179. @MSD Group nothing you stated makes sense. Russia is the one having serious fiscal issues — did you not watch the part where Russia increase revenues 10% but costs by 20%?
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  180.  @goldenpharaoh  nato didn’t set up shop in Ukraine. Eastern Europe CHOSE to join NATO because they fear Russia. Russia in 2022 just proved that if it’s former colonies didnt join NATO, Russia was indeed a threat to invade and will keep its colonies puppets. Cuban missile crisis is something uneducated people bring up. That was only a few years after the nuclear weapons became a thing and it wasn’t known if nuclear powers would attack each other. We have 60 more years of experience regarding that and we realized MAD (mutual assured destruction) was going to prevent nukes from being used Liz Do you really think the Russia doesn’t have nukes in subs in striking distance of the US?!?!
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  181. A blockade of Taiwan would mean China would have to attack the US and it’s Allie’s. So at that point, China has lost.
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  182.  @emperorjonz9590  “abusing freedom of navigation”…you mean by attacking American ships that will force their way into Taiwan to support Taiwan. I don’t think you are even thinking this through — you seem to suggest that China will out large scale ships preventing American ships from passing through all around Taiwan as if the US would then not go through. Let me ask you, just to make sure you aren’t extremely pro China bias “emperor Jonz”, what is going on in Xinjiang? Would you admit it something that starts with ‘gên’ and ends in ‘ocide’?
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  183.  @Verpal  emperor Jonz is a Chinese govt Vumao. “Abusing the freedom of navigation”…he thinks the US and taiwans Allie’s will simply not go to Taiwan because China has hundred ships surrounding Taiwan? The US already regularly sends ships in areas that China and others illegally claim so that freedom of navigation is ensured. The US and it’s allies will not allow China to claim all waters around Taiwan so China will literally have to fire on American ships to claim the waters.
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  184.  @emperorjonz9590  don’t forget to let us know what is happening in Xinjiang so we know empeoror Jonz isn’t a puppet of the PRC
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  185.  @Verpal  maritime militias? The ones that the US blew by with ships? And you think that after the US said they will help Taiwan, they will not send aid through a blockade? It’s up to china to attack the US. Furthermore, you are aware the US has by far the superior navy? Add in that Japan (arguably 3rd strongest navy) would join and maybe even France and England (so 4 of the top 5 or 6 navyies). Yes, China can disrupt shipping but unless they attack the US/Japanese/allies ships, they won’t have a true blockade. Do you think the US would just not send any aid through blockade? And how will China enforce that blockade? I don’t know why you people refuse to just say it — China will indeed need to attack US ships to have a blockade.
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  186. 1:17 why is Meloni speaking Spanish in this speech? Was it in Spain? Or just a coincidence that part of the speech was Italian where all or almost all the words are the same as Spanish?
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  187.  @flamingsilver5608  top in 2021: usa, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Iraq, China, iran
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  188.  @ChinaSongsCollection  Winnie the Pooh as a reference to Xi is banned. How do you not know? Why are you okay with such a ban?
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  189. Also, guy work for Beijing. You seem to defend them or criticize countries that China dislikes
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  190.  @Naveen-tq7cg  Doubts. You are repeating Beijing ad Moscow talking points.
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  191.  @Naveen-tq7cg  "The fact that Beijing/Moscow bring these points up doesn't automatically discredit them" no, but it's not true as you descirbed it and it says a lot about you repeating talking points from them. " but it's an active decision to outsource your garbage." And yet China has worse regulation than even the US. So for the same good made, China is polluting a lot more. Maybe you would agree that China is only allowed to sell goods to other countries if it meets their environmental standards? Or at least on goods that go to the west? So a tariff on all Chinese goods that don't meet western environmental standards? You agree with that?
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  192.  @Naveen-tq7cg  "I would be open to tariffs on highly polluting products. A flat tariff rate on a nation based on per capita emissions however makes close to no sense." It would have to be a flat tariff for all polluting products based on China's (or whoever else) NOT enacting environmental regulations that match the west and NOT following through with those environmental regulations if they were enacted. So China has to pass a min level of environmental regulations and actually follow through on the policy to avoid the tariffs. That would be easier than actually trying to calculate the emissions produced by each product You mentioned the west is just exporting it's pollution so this would mostly solve that specific issue about exporting pollution. We aren't talking about individual pollutions - that isn't what is exported.
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  193.  @landsknecht8654  I’m avoiding using racist or racism spelled out because they often get removed by YT like this comment is likely only to appear in your notification but no one else will see it. At least on of your comments you made also don’t show up. In fact the very comment I replied to where you said trump isn’t one is not showing up
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  194.  @kucanusa3750  mandatory gun ownership? Maybe the rest though
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  195.  @Kevin-mk6jo  If you actually think the Iranian regime is more trustworthy than the the Israeli regime with nukes, then maybe you’re the type that still wishes the man with the little mustache had won ww2.
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  196.  @youtubeoppressivecensorshi8047  is you’re username related to how so many comments don’t show up? Or something else?
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  197.  @nexi1083  So you're basically telling me that you agree with gen-cide of Kosovo? That Serbia was good to it and anyone that tried to help is in the wrong?
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  198. Why praise Ashley for committing treason? You hate America?
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  199.  @francisstephenperalta2823  wake up and see what facts? That’s Ashley tried to break into the capitol with an armed crowd while congress was in session? Why do you support t-rr0rist?
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  200.  @Venezolano410  I’m Mexican (born in Mexico but raised in the US). I’ve traveled to 10 Latin American countries. I can tell you that there are indeed a lot of cultural similarities among many Spanish speaking Latin American countries. Again, this is a comparison to other regions. Are you saying that Costa Rica and Mexico are less similar than Niger and Uganda? Please answer and don’t ignore (which you will because you will realize you have no argument).
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  201. China has massive bribing in Guyana that was caught on video by Vice News. It will be a China puppet state.
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  202.  @Liboch  so looked it up on Wikipedia. The countries you listed have a higher percentage of English speakers (I’m surprised Malaysia is so high at 62% but the others I knew where higher) but total population of English speakers, India is second the world and more than all the countries you listed combined. Wikipedia says India has 130 million speakers and China only has 10 million. They even note that that there is a often a cited “300 million” but that is for learners, on 10 million can actually speak it. I’ve been to China many times - almost nobody speaks more than a few broken words in English though the youth from good schools in in major cities seemed to have a much higher rate of English.
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  203.  @Liboch  Singapore for sure has big English rate. I’ve seen videos from there and almost everyone speaks English. I’m still surprised with Malaysia. China — it’s tough to get around if you don’t speak Chinese. I don’t feel China is going to have a huge population of good English speakers anytime soon. They are very closed off and nationalistic compared to other counties. And with 1.4 billion people, they have a big enough local market to not be forced to speak English. In fact all of east Asia seems to have very low numbers of English speakers.
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  204.  @drumpfdon760  hello vvumao, why can’t you admit and acknowledge what’s going on in Xinjiang? Are u on a contract to defend China?
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  205. Dark Brandon actually made smarter moves -- he essentially sanctioned critical components and got SEVERAL other countries to hope on board as well. Trump was horrible because he just blindly put tariffs on things that mostly hurt US consumers while doing little to slow down the important sectors of China. And worse, he did it alone without the help of our allies. Those allies weren't going to help because Trump also put tariffs on them or threatened tarrifs!
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  206.  @concernedliberal4453  Sure he left the majority of them in place but they did nothing to help the situation when others didn't get on board. It's politically hard to get rid of something once it's in place -- you should know, tha'ts why your orange didn't get rid of Obamacare.
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  207.  @fra604  It's his way of telling us he is alt right.
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  208.    and you ignore they privatized a lot of public industries, didn’t use a command economy, by your dumb definition, most countries today are socialist or communist
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  209. And those over 50 are mostly Gen X at this point
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  210.  @caspermac  yes, the research on universities literally show the US universities are among the top in the world. The 3 most popular ranking have between 30-40 of the top 100 universities in the US with only a handful in China. So, why are you being so ignorant about this? This video even discussed one such ranking — are stupid enough to say the the these rankings don’t show US dominating when the video literally describes one of those rankings
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  211. China sided with evil, evil is losing, China is not trying to repair their image for siding with evil. China (like Russia) thought the war would be over in days or weeks which would allow China to benefit with a Russian quick win. China has further cemented itself as a nation that cannot be trusted by the international community. Chinas support for Russia has alienated China further. It backfired terribly for Beijing.
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  212. Economy is mixed but inflation is indeed an issue. That is a big driver of the unpopularity but also the major factor is the polarization of politics. Biden is one of the lowest approval but trump was one as well and Obama was below average approval. The approval from opposition party voters is shrinking and shrinking meaning almost all the approval is coming from your own party. Biden is under 40%, Trump was mostly around 42%, Obama was mostly 45% but go back to Clinton and he was often around 60%. Reagan was often above 60%.
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  213.  @jeffs4483  why do you defend authoritarian leftist regimes? So what if 10 or so other leftist authoritarian leaders in Latin America defend Castillo, does that make it right? All that proves is how terrible LATAM leaders are.. and the voters in LATAM.
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  214. "As any other country, China will act in self-interest " Sure, but that seems like an excuse for any self-interest. Their interest are dangerous to the world which is also why it shouldn't have been a surprised they didn't remain neutral. >While I don‘t expect the US to decline to a point where the Chinese and Russians can overtake the US, the US‘ influence will be challenged. Not just from the Russians and Chinese but potentially from the Europeans themselves, especially when you look at China. Europe will be the real challenger but that's good. China and Russia will have trouble actually making serious allies and what Russia has done in Ukraine and how China has acted towards Europe and others in East Asia, it actually strengthened 'the west'. What China and Russia are doing are driving more countries to strengthen their relationship with the US and/or west. Vietnam & Phillipines but you can see concerns about China from Malaysia and Indonesia as well which will only move them more towards the west. But there will be a collection of countries that will join Rus-CN, mostly a few authoritarian middle east and authoritarian African countries.
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  215.  @JordanHarbingerShow  that is their tactic and it’s easy to spot. They keep moving goal posts or they state false info disguised as factual then move to another talking point while you fact check their claim. Rinse and repeat. No surprise that I was in another discussion with him in another chain of comments and he wouldn’t acknowledge what’s going on in Xinjiang. Same thing happened with the other guy in this thread defending China, ChinaSongsCollection. These “people” operate exactly the same with the same tactics.
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  216.  @JordanHarbingerShow  but Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria and slavery and black lives matters and corporate media!! Don’t you see, these are the reasons why China is better!!….they love their whataboutism as much as they love denying anything horrible is going on in Xinjiang.
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  217.  @JordanHarbingerShow  you’re interview with Clint watts (former fbi?) and laowhy (c-milk, Matt) are very relevant to this here. I follow plenty of YouTubers that engage in either world politics or global information such as this Channel, real life lore and Polymatter among others. If the topic is China, it gets flooded by the same types defending China and not once have any of them been able to acknowledge what’s going on in Xinjiang. It seems like it’s a playbook they are all using and likely many are paid by the CCP to influence the discussions or they are drones that watch CCP media then repeat what the CCP says. But the fact they are unable to make any criticism of China and use the same talking points suggests it’s mostly coordinated, at least the obvious pro PRC commentators.
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  218.  @JordanHarbingerShow  it’s the same thing and actually worse on Reddit. It’s full of so many CCP $hi||s using the same tactics as those on YT. On Reddit, those Wvumaos are also joined by edgy anti US crowd or tankies — the difference is easy to spot be used the Wvumao states only positive things about China but won’t acknowledge the bad parts of the Chinese government while tankies will openly admit some of Chinas bad such as oppression of the people but they defend it by saying it’s just as bad in the west. The vvumao will state “Chinas isn’t oppressive. The govt controls the media to protect the people from false information”. The tankie or Edgy anti west redditor would say “yeah, It sucks China does censor a lot of stuff but the west is just as bad with censorship and the corporate media also lies to you”. I don’t understand they the CCP $hi||s can’t at least fake some criticism of China — it’s such a dead giveaway when they defend everything about China and the CCP.
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  219.  @JordanHarbingerShow  there is one YouTube user (agapp11able) that I saw frequently defend everything about China and when we traded sources on Uyghurs, he used Chinese state media as a source and some random Twitter account that had a picture of a map that was proof no g8noc1de in Xinjiang. I gave him sources and he dismissed it all because of western bias even when one of my sources (ASPI) actually had picture and video evidence of China staging videos such as those he showed me from Chinese state media. I googled his username and found out he’s from Russia and almost all his comments online are defending China or Russia even in remote forums like a Kazakhstan website. He too is unable to criticize either China or Russia — not even one criticism when I asked him to prove he’s not paid. He has since deleted a lot of his comments because I caught him lying — he stated in YT he was Ukrainian (then went on to criticize Ukraine in a video about Russia invading Ukraine) but elsewhere he stated he was Russian and he lives in Russia. Caught him on that and he’s deleted some of his comments. Russia and China are certainly working hard to control the public narrative.
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  220.  @JordanHarbingerShow  YT removes the most innocent comments. And there is no way of telling what triggered it
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  221. I think a lot of people here don’t get this is an old joke
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  222.  @bestbuilder7833 ”not true anymore” yet study after study says the caste system is still a big impact
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  223.  @MessiahManiac Indian nationalist defending the caste by Saying it doesn’t exist. If people aren’t marrying outside of their caste, it means the caste system is still having a huge impact even if not “official”.
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  224.  @PaulStewartAviation  the trade was handled in a horrible way going unilaterally and too quickly but now with other countries joining and now that we have seen how Xi is a threat, the trade war is a positive now. Closer economic ties with India and Vietnam are needed. Thailand too. I believe the US is the largest export market for all and i know for Vietnam it’s not even close — over 30% of exports are to the US. That means they are slowly replacing some of Chinas production.
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  225.  @roderickwhitehead  serious, help me understand people like you. You complain people don’t want honest discussions but yet you support the biggest liar, Trump. How can you hold such an opinion when you are the worst offender?
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  226. Some worse than others though. Northern Europe has some of the least and Latin America and Africa among the worst.
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  227. What makes you say that most people here want japan to go to war with China? That’s what they tell you see see pee news? If you cared about China you wouldn’t defend Chinas aggression or human rights abuses.
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  228. But China with concentration camps of Uyghurs aren’t racist?
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  229.  @tawandamachona4481  Wumao won’t acknowledge genocide and concentration camps in Xinjiang China. What a surprise!! The point is to demonstrate what China is asking of its loan recipients but a wumao isn’t allowed to acknowledge the concentration camps and genocide.
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  230.  @tawandamachona4481  wow, typical wumao can’t even acknowledge that China has concentration camps as part of a genocide. Why can’t you acknowledge it? It’s highly relevant since the video pointed out that most of the countries defending Chinas concentration camps were from Africa. But a wumao (CCP shill) like you isn’t allowed to acknowledge the concentration camps.
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  231. Did you even watch the video? It’s South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Australia and India which were all the focus of the video
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  232.  @HelloPenguinYT  what?
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  233.  Chí Phèo nguyễn  communism only exist now in North Korea and somewhat in Cuba you uneducated troll. In North Korea, lots of people die including millions just 20-25yrs ago and thousands again in the 2000’s from starvation
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  234.  Awawawa CM  trade is vital — yet, communist countries practiced protectionism among themselves and their allies. China, India and USSR are 3 most resource heavy nation and they traded mostly among themselves and yet they failed? Lol, what was your point?
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  235.  @jayyy3456  hey wumao, you do realize that western loans usually come with stipulations of these authoritarian dictators making democracy reforms while Chinas loans with the strings attached of defending Chinas concentration camps and genocide. Let me guess — you don’t believe the Uighurs are being genocided via concentration camps?
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  236.  @jayyy3456  wow, you just keep repeating CCP talking points with whataboutism!! Ok, don’t want to call it genocide, do you agree it’s cultural genocide? And do you agree they have concentration camps of innocent Muslims? It’s obvios a wumao like you can’t acknowledge any of that but now others can see your a wumao (CCP shill).
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  237.  @jayyy3456  lol, wumao CCP shill isn’t allowed to say the concentration camps or genocide exist in Xinjiang but you are programmed to say hate crimes against Muslims exist in the west. Thanks for making it obvious.
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  238. Yup. Terrible business person, great conman
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  239.  Johnson Li  how much Beijing pay you?
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  240.  Johnson Li  many countries that previously had tough Covid measures and handled it well have since opened up. Covid isn’t going anywhere and that’s why there are so many cases in China now. But you would rather continue zero Covid for 10 more years because Winnie the Pooh told you
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  241.  Johnson Li  China has eased up on Covid? You mean this week after protests where people are getting arrested and many have to hold a blank white paper to hopefully avoid be arrested?
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  242.  Johnson Li  why is that Taiwan and Australia and New Zealand were able to open up a while ago with low number of deaths but your glorious china can’t? Seems like CCP just wants to take this opportunity to enslave the people more by passing more draconian measures that will keep people in check.
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  243. Why süpp0rt évíl? Why süpp0rt the governments of Chna & Rüs?
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  244. Several authoritarian leftist in LATAM are defending Castillo too. Horrible. Includes the new Colombian president Petro.
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  245.  @P4DR  And those conditions weren't met. Therefore, the congress was able to remove him from power. They followed the constitution. So what's your point? Is your point that you will defend terrible leaders so long as they are leftist?
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  246.  @J_X999  Japan has failed to switch? Maybe because the AI you mention isn’t advance enough to do what you say it will do? Low labor productivity is exactly why Japan would be using the AI if it was as good as you say
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  247.  @J_X999  I don’t care about Japan in this context. I’m simply pointing out that if AI were that good, other countries and especially those with demographic issues AND high wages would be on it as soon as AI was the solution you describe. I brought up Chinas declining GDP growth to demonstrate that AI isn’t remotely close to the solution you describe
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  248.  @drumpfdon760  uh, what does the fact that Taiwanese and HKers originally being Han Chinese mean that oppression is okay? It’s like arguing that the UK can take back or oppress any country that has people of British descent
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  249.  @drumpfdon760  you like the west Taiwan, right?
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  250.  @J_X999  you might be overestimating AI? That’s an understatement. Maybe in the future it becomes that productive but if it becomes that productive I see japan and South Korea and other nations with much higher labor costs than China and with similar demographic issues all joining the AI path. I think you’re missing my main point — I’m saying growth is all relative. So while China can avoid the complete stagnation (0% gdp growth) that Japan saw (AI wasn’t viable in the 90’s), it will still see declining growth relative to other countries. For example, without AI china might have 2% gdp growth but with AI, it might 4%. But that 2% boost from AI will also be seen by japan and South Korea and whoever.
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  251.  @drumpfdon760  Chinas gdp growth is in large part declining working age. The working age population peaked in 2014 and since then gdp growth has been declining. It’s also seen reduction in growth due to moving into middle income, housing crisis, debt crisis, and COVID lockdowns. This year will be the 2nd year in 3 years to have gdp growth under 4%. Countries are decouping from China so they are missing out on a lot of business that could have offset some of the other factors. It’s 3 year gdp growth 2020-2022 will be 4.6% annual gdp growth, far lower than the 6-7% it had in 2017-2019 and far lower than the 10%+ from 2000-2010.
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  252.  @drumpfdon760  and if AI was that great, Chinas growth wouldn’t be slowing down as much as it is now. And when AI, gets better, japan and South Korea and other countries with much higher labor rates and similar demographic issues will be more likely to maximize the use of AI. There is less incentives to use AI when you still have hundreds of millions of Chinese inland that are very poor and on par with Africa.
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  253. Seems like the one with the more Scottish accent is English and the one with a more English accent is Scottish? Maybe Scottish Simon is from northern England where it’s a mix of English and Scottish accents
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  254. This is why more and more nations are forming alliances. You have NATO expanding plus NATO allied countries that will likely be treated much like a NATO country. You have growing alliances in Asia/Ocean with Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, India and to a lesser extend Philippines and Vietnam.
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  255. That’s odd considering the plaza accord was 1985 and the late 80’s where the best economic growth period of Japan after the 60’s.
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  256.  @علي-ش7ث8ب  you have even less of an idea
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  257.  @Wafflehouse69.69  except Serbia committee horrible war crimes and a Gen-cide in Kosovo. Not exactly anything like you described about claiming someone’s backyard.
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  258. That's why many firms already are moving out of China or have backup plans. Your going to see more and more western companies with footprints in China continue to look at other countries as options -- which is why many are turning to Vietnam, India and Mexico. Even Chinese companies are doing the same!! Many of them are opening up facilities elsewhere just in case there are sanctions or other economic penalties against China in the future.
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  259. Love your channel Economics in Action
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  260.  @arcqian143  "We respect our partners " Funny guy. China is perhaps the least respected country. "Australia had been a trusted partner of China. China imports a large amount of resources from Australia and also brings significant investment to Australia." China is so terrible that even talking about investigating covid (which China lied about for a while) leads China to cut off most trade. Real bully. "now this Asutralian government appears to be de-escalating the conflict" Certainly not going to be the bully China that everyone hates. Why do you think all of China's neighbors to the east hate China? Vietnma, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and even down to Australia and NZ??
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  261.  @arcqian143  hey, do you support the g8noc1de in Xinjiang?
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  262.  @arcqian143  why won’t you answer what’s going on xinjiang? vvumao much?
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  263.  @arcqian143  "Actually I answered," YT does remove comments but they still show up in the notifications of the person you sent it to. I didn't receive any such notification. "because they didn't want you to know the truth" Spoken like vvumao. YT has removed lots of my comments (and will probably do that to this) so I guess I am the one that is right?
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  264.  @kylebritt1225  my guess is Arc Qian wasn't satire but work of vvumao
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  265.  @arcqian143  "I'm just a patriot who wants to defend my own country, just like you." Except denying the facts, supporting a g8noc1de, and supporting oppression
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  266.  @arcqian143  I am free to heavily criticize my govt where needed. -- I think Trump should be arrested and US gov does terrible job on addressing r@c1sm.
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  267.  @arcqian143  ​ When 2/3 of mosques are destroyed or damaged in the past 5-7 years, you think it's nothing? When the Xinjiang police files describe they have orders to shoot anyone trying to escape the camps and describe torture, it means nothing? When a former police of Xinjiang confirms they round up massive number of innocent muslims and most are tortured -- a story also confirmed not only by the Xinjiang police files but mass number of Uyhgurs, it means nothing? When there is evidence of 380+ camps, it means nothing?
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  268.  es loo  an evil rising giant
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  269.  @inuwooddog3027  I totally believe you. And to prove you aren’t just trying to defend everything about China, you can certainly acknowledge the g8noc1de in Xinjiang, right?
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  270.  @inuwooddog3027  forget what you said? But you made an argument suggesting it is true that China has destroyed or damaged most mosques. Are you saying u lied about that?
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  271. Vice News caught on video Chinas massive bribing operation tied to the leader of guayana. If Guyana is so easily corrupted, this tells me Guyana will just be another Venezuela- never turning the oil into big profits for the people.
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  272.  @J_X999  Japan has seen a 14% decline of its working age population since 1995 so you can bet demographics is the leading factor for Japan’s stagnation. It also ranks number 21 in the world in per capita productivity, ahead of Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea. At 21 it can improve but it’s not as bad as you say and you are incorrect to suggest demographics isn’t the biggest issue
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  273. Brought so much prosperity that they distant themselves from communism as much as possible — crony corrupt capitalism. It’s odd tos we them bring back the sickle and hammer
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  274.  @kurosai006ichigo3  " i am aware Chinese currency is not high" And 20 years of China's growth, yet it hasn't moved much. Just 2.7% of currency reserves in the world, about half of the UK Pound Sterling and less than half of the JP Yen. 1/9 that of the Euro. >Nor was US currency high before they started globalizing Except the US was a big part in creating stable currency that can be easily traded. OP described exactly why people don't want to use the Yuan but you ignored it for some reason. If it's a free exchange rate, not easily bought/sold, and the See See Pee will punish people for the smallest infractions (see what they did to Australia and NZ), why would anyone use it unless they are bad and worried about being sanctioned.
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  275.  @sjv9147s  there are many ways the US can punish Saudi Arabia. They can buy Chinese weapons but those are inferior. Money isn’t an issue for Saudi Arabia so this will hurt Saudi Arabia. The US can also politically isolate KSA. The security Saudi Arabia receives from the US can also be withheld. the KSA will take time to find new weapons and someone new to protect them. The only large concerns IMO is that Saudi Arabia helps offset irans influence in the region. That’s why US wouldn’t want to destroy the relationship. But hey, if Iran has a revolution and throws out the ayatollah, Saudi Arabia becomes even less useful for the US
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  276.  @Tyrantswillfall  538 has aggregate polling average of 39.6% approval for Biden
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  277.  @fra604  the guy is defending China in other comments — it’s a w8má0, hope you know that
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  278.  @PacificSeaBass  Biden finish the border wall? How does that help you individually 8’ 2022 and why didn’t trump get it done? Deficit has increased and it increased tremendously under Trump. Trump was handed a hot economy in 2016 and why did he increase the deficit? Hot economy is when you are supposed to reduce deficits so you are prepared for an emergency like the pandemics
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  279. I, a human being, have also found the wonderful YouTube ad for Ground News, to be very interesting. I, a human being, will check it out
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  280. Lol, so obvious. Slava Ukraini. You seem so worried for Russia that you want to make it appear as if it’s the rest the world that will suffer.
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  281.  @Tom_Cruise_Missile  his other comments are more of the same — defending Russia and making things look worse for the west and Ukraine. Slava Ukraini
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  282.  @slippingsnake  Under Put1n, no possibility of a breakaway happening. There is a non 0 but still very low possibility of happening anytime in the next 50-75yrs.
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  283. China isn’t pragmatic — they just aren’t THAT d*mb. They already enabled the invasion with their support and have caused irreparable damage to their relationship with the west and their economy (the west is more motivated and in process of de-coupling from China) but helping out Russia as it sinks is just too much for them.
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  284.  @TheGoldenEagle03  Also funny you complain about 'trust worthiness" when in other comments you defend RUS and China. almost as if Raffy is only here to defend bad.
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  285. What’s their way out of this? They will have to find a new tax revenue generator but that will end up slowing economic growth so best case is they don’t collapse but just see very normal growth going forward like 2-3% gdp growth rather than 5% originally forecast for 2022-2030.
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  286.  @jayl878  that probably won’t be enough but I suspect that’s what it will start with. Higher Taxes on higher end goods and higher taxes on the wealthy and middle class. But ultimately they will need a higher sales taxes across the board
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  287.  @MilanTheMan69  the CCP w8ma0.
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  288. Just a handful. But I imagine all the authoritarian leftist from AMLO to Maduro to the Cuban leader and maybe the new Colombian leftist president will defend Castillo. That’s why Latin America has problems — they defend these terrible authoritarian leaders.
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  289.  @jeffs4483  you names like 1/5 of the LATAM countries not s majority. But it could become a majorly given the authoritarian leftist in LATAM.
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  290. Why does every country on east and southeast of asia heavily dislike China? You mention US doesn’t have control — South Korea, Japan and Taiwan are extremely close Allies of the US and Vietnam is an ally as well. All of them hate the Chi govt. So why do they all hate the PRC and why do they all like the US?
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  291. to prove Victor Chans purpose is to defend PRC, can you acknowledge there is a gén -ide in Xinjian?
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  292. Euro is the next best option. No one is going back to gold based currency
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  293.  @florianmaier104  "worked for millenia"? Uh, so did non-stop war and the occasional plague that killed 25% of the population. Just because something worked the way it did in the past doesn't mean its advantages to do that today.
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  294.  Prehistoric Postmodernist  the Bolivia coup? The temp president held new elections. Venezuela? So you do support dictatorships like Maduro? No wonder you defend Castillo
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  295.  Prehistoric Postmodernist  but US wasn’t behind Venezuela or Bolivia. And if you really think the US was the one doing the “coup” (can it be a coup to get someone removed from office that isn’t the rightful leader?), you are suggesting the CIA is horribly bad it’s job so you should never fear the cia and they will never be successful.
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  296. 98% of the time it’s 100% true
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  297.  @davidchurchich9634  Because wise people don't hang out with the unwise so that would never come up since it's a given. It's like asking if water is wet...
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  298.  @T00Busy113  free Xinjiang! Free Tibet! Free west Taiwan from the PRC! It’s easy to Notice you think the bully China is the good guy and that no one should form alliances to stop the bullying
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  299.  @T00Busy113  “a few countries trying to maintain hegemony”. So, does your contract allow you to acknowledge the g8noc1de in Xinjiang? You’re saying china is the good guy here so let’s see if are able to criticize the horrible things China is doing
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  300.  @spencervance8484  Harald Tan is calling china the good guy and calling the the bad guys all those countries trying to defend themselves from Chinese aggression. He won’t even acknowledge what’s going on in Xinjiang
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  301.  @T00Busy113  totally not on a contract — yet 100% as suspected defend china on Xinjiang. Vvumao. The UNHCR report? You do know that the person who went to China literally said it wasn’t an investigation? You do know she didn’t actually visit many of the camps? She has said it was meeting to open dialogue. So what Do you expect of the report? And what’s blown out proportion by the west? Very strong evidence: 1. Chinas plan to mass arrest Muslims in Xinjiang for infractions that are basically being or practicing Islam 2. 380+ camps built in recent years where millions have been sent 3. Evidence of forced labor at many of these camps 4. Former Xinjiang cop confirming mass torture which was documented by mass numbers of Uyghurs. 5. torture also described in hacked Xinjiang police files. Same files also said they will shoot to kill anyone trying to escape camps 6. Picture evidence of 2/3 of mosques destroyed or damaged over past 5-7 years 7. Forced sterilization of Uyghurs So, how is this not a horrible thing?
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  302.  @jeremydevor7004  I agree, if Ukraine can cut through the middle, Crimea and the western parts of Russia controlled Ukraine will be Ukraine's. I don't see Ukraine ever taking Donbass region in a military fight because it's too well fortified and bordering Russia will be too well supplied. At best it will be part of some agreement IMO where possibly Russia gives up the Donbas in return for certain concessions for Russia to save face and possibly in return for the west undoing all sanctions.
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  303.  @retkvi  no idea why your comment doesn’t show. YT Zia weird. But yeah, the outcome can be very bad for Putin if he starts losing more of the captured territory. But given his control of the media and information, he might just find a way to keep getting support. Remember it started as a special operation to get rid of the n-zis in Ukraine? Now they call it a war, had a mobilization, and haven’t mentioned n-zi in a while changing the story that it’s now about the west aggression. I’ve watched many videos on 1420 channel where they talk to Russians on the streets and 3/4 of them just believe what Putin says.
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  304.  @Miniorpernik  Japan bought a very small amount (relative to their usage) above cap (not above market price). From a report " Despite the concession, Russian natural-gas imports to Japan are relatively small, accounting for around one-tenth of Japan’s supply and a fraction of Russia’s output, the Wall Journal reports". It was also approved by the US..."Japan has begun purchasing Russian crude oil above the $60-a-barrel cap, breaking with Western allies thanks to an exception authorized by the United States. "
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  305.  @Miniorpernik  So, you have any more false info you want to spread? How's Moscow today?
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  306.  @Miniorpernik  Oh, they are only buying it at $70, $10 more than the cap but below market rate. "The nations granted an exception to the $60-a-barrel cap through September for oil purchased by Japan. And in the first two months of this year, Japan bought around 748,000 barrels of Russian oil for approximately $70 a barrel."
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  307. Vvumao
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  308. No, they cannot starve Taiwan without attacking US and Allies. You won’t answer how they can starve Taiwan without attacking the US and Allies ships
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  309. So hard to break this cycle once they allowed the cartels to become too powerful
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  310. Mexico has too much corruption and consistently has a government that just wants to give money away to the poor rather than use the money to build up infrastructure, improve education, and and make more business friendly environment. Almost all the success stories in Asia were from that playbook. Until Mexico makes proper reforms and spends the money on things that will improve business and trade, mexico will just have modest gains relative to Asia.
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  311.  @bighands69  The US has lots of checks of balances. I do think they are eroding but still, it's much better than Mexico.
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  312. Bernie Biden and Trump are all older than the US presidents elected in 1992 and 2000 are today
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  313.  @shreyanshverma2295  Hey, it's the anti west guy again! Federal Reserve doesn't have to be 100% transparent to be much better and much more transparent than one run by China. Why do your types always use Nirvana Fallacy?
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  314.  @jimgriffiths9071  The US has plenty of Unskilled labor but I'm not sure what that has to do with Venezuela. Now you're talking about refugees and not the govt of Venezuela? Caribbean has enough oil to see us thrus till fusion -- but this is about Cuba specifically not the whole Caribbean.
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  315.  @Evan-iq8hd  US would be insane to trust cuba or Venezuela. Both are dictatorships that oppress (violently) any opposition. Putin and China have shown oppressive autocracies can’t be trusted
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  316.  @Evan-iq8hd  US does it (in recent years) when it’s entirely necessary. Literally the point of the video. Did you not watch it? When 2/3 of the world are oppressive regimes, you can’t alienate all the oppressive regimes. Tr0/| harder
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  317.  @Evan-iq8hd  it happens 73% of the time? The biggest enemies of the US are dictatorships or similar governments so why make it up? The closest friends of the US are almost all democracies with good human rights from Europe to Canada Japan South Korea Australia New Zealand etc. if you’re lame argument made sense, then the close allies of the US would be mostly dictatorships or other non democratic countries. Just like how Chinas closest friends are almost all non democratic countries.
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  318. But Hattians can't help Haiti. It's a failed state. They will need outside support but nobody wants to be dragged into that mess.
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  319.  @eabutler6861  " Americans supporting Poppa Doc in the 60's and 70's.". How? He was 'democratically' elected then consolidated power and the US halted economic aid in the early 60's. So he had already made himself a quasi autocrat on his own and against the US wishes.
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  320.  @noahjohnson935  The biggest problem with that thinking of those people is that the truth slowly erodes and eventually they are just brain (cant combine words - washed. Look at Putin. he helped out initially by stabilizing the country though a big part was just the fact oil prices doubled in his few few years. But overtime, they have had stagnant economy with rights eroded. Now, they believe that their current situation is the best it will get because they bought all the false info from Putin.
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  321. Slava Urkaini comrade Jay Bee
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  322. The US share of global trade dropped from 40%+ to about 25% today so some drop is likely. Euro has certainly take some of that though that has now flattened.
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  323.  @tobiwan001  The Economics Explained video I just watched mentioned 25% but maybe it was % of GDP and not global trade. The importance is the trend -- the share of global trade and share of global GDP for the US is dropping so it's expected to be used less just based on that. But Yuan is only increasingly marginally so it certainly has no chance of competition with the US dollar.
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  324.  @gorilladisco9108  Nobody outside of soviet bloc bought soviet autos.
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  325. ​ @recoil53  "He didn't say it was a necessary step, " I didn't either. II literally spent the rest of that post after the first sentence showing how a an auto mfg industry does help a lot and why we often see an economy take off when their auto industry flourishes. For the most part, you basically repeated everything I said where I discussed how auto industry requires a lot of suppliers and that the labor is generally higher wage. So we agree.
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  326. China has a right to punish other and others have a right to punish China. So that includes sanctions against those involved with the conc camps in China, forming alliances around China to help constrain China, sanctioning China if it chooses to help Russia more than it already has, and giving Taiwan all the weapons it needs to fight off China.
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  327.  @sjv9147s  which conc camps? The ones in Xinjiang. Gitmo is a prison for terrorist that has held a total of 800 different people over all the years . Xinjiang camps are where millions of innocent have been sent. Of course a 50 cent Beijing worker epodo say they are the same.
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  328.  @sjv9147s  Saudi ruling king and those at the top didn’t have anything to do with 9/11. Yes, it was was saudis in the planes and it was orchestrated out of Afghanistan. Taliban could have given up the AQ organization but they protected them for years. You’re just going through your CCP playbook.
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  329.  @sjv9147s  “have you been there (Xinjiang)”. Lol, another one that all the Beijing workers use. I’ve been to China many times but I don’t need to go to Xinjiang to know what’s happening like you don’t need to go to 1930’s Germany to know what happened to the Jews and others in the camps. You’ve never been to Xinjiang let alone visited the camps so why bring it up? Oh, because it’s next on the list from the playbook. Want to talk about 1800’s slavery to justify forced labor in the conc camps of Xinjiang in 2022? That’s also next. Oh, want to talk about police in the US? That’s also next. Then after that, “western media isn’t better than China media because Fox News exist”. You guys repeat the same lame arguments
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  330.  @sjv9147s  what truth? That you haven’t visited the Xinjiang facilities? That foreigners and journalists are blocked from getting near most of those facilities?
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  331.  @sjv9147s  death camps in Georgia? Well certainly you have gps locations of the facilities, massive number of testimonies from people who have been in there, leaked Georgia documents detailing their plans, etc? Do you?
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  332.  @sjv9147s  look up “Where Did the One Million Figure for Detentions in Xinjiang’s Camps Come From?” From Chinafile website. It details the Many pieces of evidence and it’s from 2018! So another few years have passed so well over a million!
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  333.  @sjv9147s  oh, so you don’t have any source on the Georgia claim but there are plenty on Xinjiang? Wow, you really proved to be Beijing worker
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  334.  @sjv9147s  why are you such a sad person? Has to be better ways to make money than to defend conc camps.
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  335.  @sjv9147s  you went to the camps? Wow, upload the video as evidence then. And you just outed yourself as Han supremacist by comparing Uyghurs to rabbits
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  336.  @sjv9147s  standard of proof? Just satellite images of the facilities, mass number of testimonies, public CCP documents, leaked CCP documents, and discussions with local officials. The only thing missing is china publicly confirming it. Are you saying you don’t believe any evidence if it’s not publicly confirmed by China? Lol!
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  337.  @sjv9147s  still waiting on your evidence about Georgia
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  338.  @sjv9147s  rock solid evidence? Like satellite images of the facilities, mass number of testimonies, public CCP documents, leaked CCP documents, and discussions with local officials. The only thing missing is china publicly confirming it. Are you saying you don’t believe any evidence if it’s not publicly confirmed by China? Lol!
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  339.  @sjv9147s  " if you don't already know you can't prove a negative" Actually you can. That's exactly what the courts do. One side is trying to prove the other side is guilty while the accused is trying to show evidence they are not guilty. If you are accused of committing a crime at X location, one side presents evidence of the crime and that you were there while the other presents evidence they weren't there. Surely you know this? or as a quick google search shows, " It is possible to prove rather specific negative claims that are made with rather well defined limits. If the area to be searched is well defined and of a reasonable size that permits searching then a negative claim might be capable of being proven."
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  340.  @sjv9147s  "You see, the million innocent lives lost on that whitish powder lie is a universal fact" Like 50 million lost lives in China from Mao. And 20 million in USSR because of Stalin. Or millions lost due to Japan in early 1900's.
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  341.  @sjv9147s  Holocaust is still a fraction of those that died from Mao.
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  342.  @sjv9147s  can’t prove an negative? I quoted you that you can.
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  343.  @sjv9147s  Give you a fraction of what? That 6 million Jews killed in Holocaust is 6/50th (3/25) of how many died from Mao?
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  344.  @sjv9147s  you’re post sounds so much like someone who speaks Chinese as a first language and learned very technical English instead of common English. What claim do you want a source on?
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  345.  @sjv9147s  I’m still waiting…
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  346.  @sjv9147s  I asked you what claim you want a source on and you respond that I don’t know what “source” means? Ha ha, peak tr0||.
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  347.  @sjv9147s  what are you referring to when you mention chronologically? You have to be specific because one can’t tell which of the many arguments made between us is relevant to the “chronologically”
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  348.  @sjv9147s  you’re praising Orban of Hungary in other comments so it’s obvious you’re a horrible horrible person
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  349.  @Verpal  going to reiterate the last point — do you think the US will not try to get ships through if China uses that militia navy? And how will China enforce such a blockade without attacking the US and ally ships? Why are you people refusing to acknowledge it will take china attacking US (and allies) ships to have an actual blockade?
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  350.  @Verpal  “not official militias” so they will be destroyed easily by the US with no repercussion from China? Or they will be fully considered part of China and China will face repercussions on how that militia acts. So in the first, they don’t do an actual blockade. In the second, China will have to attack the US to have an actual blockade. “Whilst yes the US will be able to send some ships through, that’s not my point”. But that is THE point of all of this. The OP started by discussing a blockade of Taiwan and I have been pointing out that for an actual blockade to occur, China will HAVE to attack US ships (and Allies such as Japan, UK and France or whoever joins). You agree on that part? Oh, and if those militias try to do a blockade on Taiwan, they will certainly be destroyed easily so all of that point is moot. It’s just a small temporary hold on shipping as the US destroys those ships
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  351.  @Verpal  “civilian ship”. So it’s not militia or armed? Then what good is this “militia”? Sounds like the “militia” won’t do anything and all this discussion is pointless. And we are back to the main point V (the user we both replied to) made and my counter to V that any actual blockade will require china to fire on the US and the allies. Do you agree that any actual blockade will require china firing on US and allies? Are you even reading what I’m saying?? All of this started with V and I pointed out that a blockade will require china to fire on the US and allies. The “militia” will be no part of any actual blockade and it’s not much relevant to anything major in regards to this discussion about china invading or doing something major against taiwan
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  352.  @Verpal  you and I replied to him. I replied to you about that other guy (even you brought up freedom of navigation that China will have to prevent). I stated from the start all of that but you have consistently refused to even say “yes, China will have to attack the US in order to have an actual blockade” so it really seems like you don’t want to admit that for some reason. You could have clarified at any point “yes, China would have to attack the US for an actual blockade BUT I believe what we will see is militias”. And you’re militia argument makes no sense to this discussion..you said it’s civilians and attacking them would look bad. Ok? Then they are not militias and they may try to do some harassments but even you must admit that it won’t be much a problem in regards to the bigger discussion being had here so it’s not a big concern.
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  353.  @Verpal  the difference between me and you is I have clarified many times my views on the militia as well as on blockade. You refusing to speak directly about the blockade or flat out saying China won’t be able to blockade makes it appear you are conflating whatever this militia does with a blockade that was being discussed by the person you originally responded to (@V) and me who also kept that discussion going.
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  354.  @emperorjonz9590  “abusing freedom of navigation” how? You never responded. It’s clear it means China will have to fire on the US and Allies because US and Allies currently send ships through the straight to enforce freedom of navigation. Nice try vvumao
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  355.  @danielebologna4765  Thanks!
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  356.  @daniellarson3068  I can’t tell if you’re making the typical anti US uneducated comment or not. Venezuela has never really been on par with Saudi Arabia on oil because Saudi Arabia’s oil is easily tapped while much Venezuelas oil reserves are far harder to get and their oil is “dirtier” requiring more expensive refinement which is why even 10 years ago their peak Venezuela wasn’t anywhere near a rich country like Saudi Arabia. Your post seems to suggest Venezuela is decent government despite Maduro basically making himself dictator and having thousands of extra judicial killings. Even with all that, the US did Send officials go Venezuela a few weeks ago.
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  357. @H J that’s a bunch of BS. Venezuela oil reserves are a lot of costly oil reserves. Venezuela even before sanctions was highly inefficient in part because they nationalized their oil and weren’t able to manage it but also because their oil is considerably dirtier and harder to get than Saudi Arabia’s oil. There weren’t sanctions on Venezuela 10-20 years ago and they still weren’t Able to realize all that oil reserves. Even if your numbers were true, for comparison, Venezuela could increase output by 2.5 million barrels a day to 5 million but Saudi Arabia is 13 million barrels a day and they can increase a considerable amount without any problem. Face it, Venezuelas poor because of bad oil management and their oil isn’t as clean and easy to get as Saudi Arabia
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  358. @H J anything above $30 Venezuela makes money on their CURRENT oil production. The new oil is far more expensive
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  359. @H J no, it’s way too costly for Venezuela to do it alone even without sanctions and it takes time. It’s possible in a year or two by the time they started getting some of the new oil fields the oil prices might be $50-$70. It’s a risk. And Venezuela even without sanctions before ever failures in this — they are terrible at drilling for oil. The only use I see is if Venezuela and US make up and then US and foreign companies invest heavily to help get the oil. That’s a big risk for the US and Maduro is a dictator so it will be hard for the US let that go and it would be hard for Maduro to be friendly with the US.
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  360. @H J in addition, Venezuela is currently in an economic collapse making it difficult for any foreign investments even if there were no sanctions .
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  361. @H J - Hugo Chavez also took several steps that precipitated a long and steady decline in the country’s oil production, which peaked in the late 1990s and early 2000s. His decision to fire thousands of experienced PDVSA workers who had taken part in an industry strike in 2002–2003 gutted the company of important technical expertise. Beginning in 2005, Chavez provided subsidized oil to several countries in the region, including Cuba, through an alliance known as Petrocaribe. Over the course of Chavez’s presidency, which lasted until 2013, strategic petroleum reserves dwindled and government debt more than doubled - he ended term limits, effectively took control of the Supreme Court, harassed the press and closed independent outlets, and nationalized hundreds of private businesses and foreign-owned assets, such as oil projects run by ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips. The reforms paved the way for Maduro to establish a dictatorship years after Chavez’s death.
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  362. Can’t argue with that
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  363.  @ChinaSongsCollection  what a typical vvumao response. First, you pretend to not know that Winnie the Pooh used to reference Xi get censored and then you try to pretend what censorship and banning of things in China is equal to the west. Straight from the vvumao playbook. What happened to Peng Shuai who went public about CCP officials treatment of her ? What happened to Dr. Li Wenliang who tried to warn the people about COVID? What happened to the Uyghurs who try to have long beards or pray outside of mosques or who speak out against the govt? So, do you honestly believe it’s equal in China as in the west?
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  364.  @ChinaSongsCollection  ur comment doesn’t appear but to others, this person basically says no censorship of Winnie the Pooh and then tries to suggest the west is no different. Typical vvumao. Anyways, info about it: - The blocking of Winnie the Pooh might seem like a bizarre move by the Chinese authorities but it is part of a struggle to restrict clever bloggers from getting around their country's censorship. China did censor Winnie the Pooh completely from Chinese social media and then later censor it if it’s referring to Xi.
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  365. Can’t trust KSA. Time to start punishing them.
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  366. Yeah, History if women and minorities being ignored for Supreme Court so him picking a black woman is of course even worse. And no way are judges personal background an effect on their job. That’s why white people have been the best at being voices for black community and men are the best at being voices for women.
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  367. Sounds like you support the likes of Adolph, Stalin, Mao and Xi. And pol pot.
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  368.  @Air-bear  who mentioned 1930’s japan? You did by saying their history applies in 2022.
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  369.  @Naveen-tq7cg  What you said was beijing / Moswow talking points. EU and US are considerably reducing their carbon and pollution emissions. China is increasing it's use of coal while US is and EU has been been decreasing it for a while! That's not about manufacturing being sent to China, that's about decision China is making.
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  370.  @Naveen-tq7cg  "This is not just about China." Okay, it was meant to be applied to every country that you believe the west is sending their garbage. China was chosen because it's where most of that 'garbage' is coming from. " So you think we should put tariffs and pressure on developing countries for trying to industrialise through polluting methods, while that is explicitly how the west did it?" You can't even have an honest conversation!! What's wrong with you? So the west is at fault for sending their garbage polluting industries abroad but if they try to penalize polluters, it's also the west fault? I saw your game from the start!
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  371.  @Naveen-tq7cg  " You're essentially saying that we should keep the rest of the nations poor", That's actually what YOU suggested when you blamed the west for sending industries abroad. Learn to be honest.
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  372. BRICS will never turn into anything more meaningful than just a forum for them to talk like a weaker version of the G20. China is has close and better relations with Indias biggest enemy and India is part of QUAD with U.S., Australia and Japan to counter China in the region
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  373.  @PiousPriest  what’s funny about your comments is that trump had years of major deficit by cutting taxes and not cutting spending. Republicans and their voters just aren’t trustworthy on what they want — well, i think it’s obvious now that culture and cultural wars are the main interests in republicans.
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  374.  @PiousPriest  " They may not have liked Trump, but were not fond of the activism as was seen within the schools " You mean the fake outrage by exaggerating claims of critical race theory? It happened almost no where yet the right claimed it was everywhere.
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  375.  @PiousPriest  "we literally have school boards doing the same song and dance to deny the problem." Ok Mr Jan 6, what problem where they doing the same song and dance? Where was CRT enacted? "CRT stopped being just a legal theory quite some time and has been adapted into educational curriculum a while ago. ' This just seems to suggest that you are the typical Orange man voter who thinks even discussing the history of racism in the US is 'CRT'. Discussing Jim Crow and Slavery..."it's CRT!". if that's what you are arguing, you just confirmed to be an oKKK Republican.
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  376.  @PiousPriest  what is blueanon? You Qanon types just want to turn it around on others? Why can’t you point to specific cities that are using CRT? And did you just indeed suggest that teaching about Jim Crow and Slavery is CRT in practice?
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  377.  @PiousPriest  when a non-racist is asked if racism is still a big problem today, they say yes. They don’t start with “it depends on what you mean by racism”. Starting a discussion like that is telling me that the rest of that comment will be to downplay racism today.
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  378.  @PiousPriest  do you think Trump is racist?
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  379.  @rickjames18  yeah, how was your Jan 6 at the capitol? You mention Rac (I’m ignoring the whole word ending in “ism” because YT might not show it) is less acceptable to the point of barely experiencing it. Yet orange the Rac was elected. The same guy who tweeted false lies in an image that was created by white supremacist. The same guy who wanted to ban all Muslims. The same guy who lies Muslims in the US were celebrating 9/11 on the streets. The same guy who blamed both sides when white supremacist killed protester in Charlottesville. But sure, it’s not a problem today despite hate crimes rising since trump!
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  380.  @rickjames18  the orange? Donald T?
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  381.  @rickjames18  do i what? Do i believe that that the orange man is a Rac? Unlike you, I think blaming both sides when a white supremacist runs over protesters is a Rac thing do.
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  382.  @rickjames18  “ah”. So can’t say if the orange is a Rac?
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  383.  @landsknecht8654  are you?
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  384.  @landsknecht8654  I was referring to r-c1sm in the US which is why I asked the other guy if he can admit Donald T is a r-c1st and he could not answer. So just so we know where you stand, do you think Trum-p is a ra-c1st?
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  385.  @landsknecht8654  well of course a r-c1st doesn’t think Trump is one. All is clear now, it was obvious you are one.
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  386. Yes, the moment it looks like China is preparing for a possible war, the actions need to be rolled out.
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  387.  @thelonegerman2314  the US is a democracy with some flaws that could be improved. You suggesting it’s basically like Russia or China just proves my point you support authoritarian oppressive regimes. You mention “systematically conditioned on how to think”…what do you think the purpose of Putin and Xi managing all news in their country is for? Why can’t you admit that China and Russia and others like them are far worse. You won’t because you are trying to equate them to the west in order to defend them
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  388.  ANTI-$TAT€  I don't understand Latin America at all. They take the worse of communism and the worst of right wing to make ideological leftist economic policies with conservative social views. Asia showed that to grow from poor to middle income to wealthy involves pro business friendly policies. Even China and Vietnam dropped leftist economic policies with LATAM leftist leaders to the economic left of so called communist China and Vietnam. Then there are the success in India (last decade), Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, etc.
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  389.  ANTI-$TAT€  LATAM left wing is nothing like northern Europe left wing which is generally much more business friendly, less corrupt, not authoritarian, very socially progressive, and who manage their 'welfare' much better than Latin America. It seems northern Europe realized that you can't just give money away and leave it at that. They actually invest in the people with a target of of improving the economy. Whether one agrees with left wing economic policies in northern or not, it's clear they at least making reasonable policy decision and not just trying to buy votes like LATAM left wing. I'm not going to say Chile's new left wing president is good but he is at least more similar with Europe's left wing. He seems more practical and he calls out human rights on the left in Latin America, including Maduro.
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  390. Australian system is one of the best in the world and a model for others. Its basically like a 401k retirement plan in the US except in the US it’s not required for companies to offer it and in the US the typical 401k is probably half or 2/3 of what Australia requires.
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  391.  @AdamMorg  it’s ni different than Spain where the government takes the money and decides how to use it.
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  392.  @Air-bear  you said Japan would repeat military aggression then say you didn’t mention military aggression?
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  393.  @alyssaperez5284  oh Xit!
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  394.  @jacopofolin6400  These people love to defend a ge-ocide when it's their county like Serbia. Although Valyshk Nee might just be a European extreme right winger based on how he brought up Muslims.
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  395.  @bhaashatepe5234  So you're basically telling me that you agree with gen-cide of Kosovo? That Serbia was good to it and anyone that tried to help is in the wrong? When you bring up Afghanistan who attacked the US first (by housing terrorist for years and not turning them over), bring up Syria which the US was hardly involved in but did help the Kurds not gets gassed unliked your buddies Russia who Helped Assad while he dropped chemical weapons, Libya which was a UN supported mission, and Serbia who was committing ge-ocide. Seems you like to be on the side of evil.
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  396.  @lynxlecher9547  Serbians had to come here to defend their gen-cide of Kosovo.
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  397.  @DMEU77  So you're basically telling me that you agree with gen-cide of Kosovo? That Serbia was good to it and anyone that tried to help is in the wrong?
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  398.  @nexi1083  Oh look, Serbian extreme nationalist denies what Serbia did to Kosovo.
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  399.  @DMEU77  Is that another way of you denying the atrocities committed by Serbia in Kosovo?
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  400.  @nexi1083  "You are talking nonsense " Of course Serbian extreme nationalist denies what Serbia did to Kosovo...again!
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  401. Slava Ukraini comrade
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  402. They are already becoming a puppet of China. China was caught on video running massive bribing operation in Guyana
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  403. Kevin the latino. No mames
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  404.  @Kevin-mk6jo  free Xinjiang! Free Tibet! Free west Taiwan from the PRC!
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  405. Interesting video but it’s basically suggesting Biden ditch all democrat values as if that will gain support of his party or Biden to make himself a dictator and somehow force through legislation that doesn’t have majority support. The video mentions it’s bad to raise taxes on corporations, bad for try to move away from fossil fuel, bad provide more services, etc.
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  406. Comrade Zhou, i totally believe you. Free Xinjiang! Free Tibet! Free Hong Kong! Free West Taiwan!
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  407. Apparently not!
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  408. yet India is using yuan for some of it's INCREASE purchase of Russian imports since 2022 started. It will be limited of course.
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  409. vvumao
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  410.  @MRW515  I know they weren't. I just said they weren't colonized by France.
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  411.  @trumpfuckbidentrumpfuckbid4859  China's total debt to GDP is higher than the US and that's using the GPD figures reported by China itself. Some estimates have China's GDP real gdp at maybe half of what China reports so their total debt to GDP could be easily over twice that as the US. Considering that Chinese currency is only the 5th most used currency and the US is far away above, this is a big problem for China. Or it will be if their economy sees more stagnant long term growth.
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  412. How is it like working in Beijing?
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  413.  @Venezolano410  if you were smart you would realize that it’s all compared to other region. So you think the dozens of countries in Latin America that speak Spanish, are predominantly Catholic, have similar goods and customs, etc is somehow less homogeneous than sub Saharan Africa where there are dozens of major languages, dozens of religions, etc?
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  414.  @tiberiupaslaru3830  I agree. Europe has many languages with 3 major religions (Catholics Protestant orthodox). While there are indeed many shared cultural elements, they are certainly less homogeneous than Spanish speaking Latin American countries.
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  415.  @tsubadaikhan6332  and Mexicos government is working for the cartels as are tens of thousands of civilians in Mexico.
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  416.  @yakov95000  also because OP isn’t smart and believes the US is still invading in Latin America like it’s the Cold War.
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  417.  @navinkv7024  that you’re a Russian agent spreading disinfo to defend Russia and criticize the west and US
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  418.  @BruceWayne-qe7bs  that’s explains it! It’s always a educated people In the movies or even reality shows I’ve seen where Indians throw in a lot of English. They will randomly say a sentence in English.
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  419.  @blokin5039  service sector is 62% of Indians GDP and only 52% or Chinas. China does have nearly twice the labor force (people working). But it’s clear indias growth is going to be service while Chinas was manufacturing.
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  420.  @whysoserious7553  that’s makes sense and I never thought about it out. I knew that English was often used between people of different languages in India but never realized a major reason many speak English is to have a language to speak with others. Sure they could all learn Hindi as well as a second language but there probably a couple reasons English is often chosen. The biggest is that if you learn English, you are also learning THE international language. The second is just a guess but perhaps someone say speaking Bengali wouldn’t want Hindi forced on them in order to protect their Bengali language and culture.
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  421.  @drumpfdon760  you are most certainly a wumao. You can’t admit/acknowledge what’s going on in Xinjiang. Can you even make any strong criticism of anything about the CCP?
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  422.  @liangxu8402  I totally believe you vvumao Liang Xu. Did you visit the conc camps and speak with the people in the camps? There are plenty of videos of people trying to get near the camps and being blocked by Chinese security officials — so if there isn’t anything going on, why can’t many people get near the camps? One brave Chinese citizen did record many of the facilities from the outside and had to do so secretly. If China is innocent, why did this Chinese citizen have to flee China before releasing the video?
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  423.  @liangxu8402  wait, you just made up the whole story about the Chinese citizen who recorded the camps. What’s his name then?? And it’s actual video evidence — so you think it’s CGI? What a vvumao
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  424.  @liangxu8402  why do you source The New Atlas? It’s a guy who works for the Russian media. So your source is a Russian puppet?
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  425.  @liangxu8402  “I have hated the CCP but yet I defend anything major about them including Xinjiang!”
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  426.  @liangxu8402  you’re source News Atlas is consistently defending Russia. This means you also support Russia invading peaceful Ukraine who didn’t threaten Russia. Really says a lot about you— all your sources are Chinese govt sources or Russian govt sources
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  427.  @liangxu8402  the Barrets and JaYoe nation are literally CCP paid YouTubers and you pretend to do dislike them CCP?
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  428.  @liangxu8402  “attacking people who disagree with you”. You mean people defending the worst things isn’t the world without a shred of honesty by using sources paid by the Chinese and Russian government? It’s hard for vvumao to understand by BBC is highly critical of the British government— they are funded by the people for the purpose to keep their government in check. Interesting how different that is than CCP and Russian media that aren’t allowed to criticize their leader because their purpose isn’t to improve the government but to serve as propa for the government to control people.
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  429.  @liangxu8402  “I would never believe the CCP…except I subscribe to YouTubers paid to defend the CCP”
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  430.  @liangxu8402  “if you don’t support the CCP and it’s g8noc1de of Uyghurs, you are a white supremacist”. Could you sound more like a vvumao? I’m not even white!
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  431.  @drumpfdon760  wow, vvumao thinks that bbc that has numerous stories criticizing and exposing British government is the same as CCP media that has zero criticism of the CCP? That’s how you vvumaos identify your vvumao status
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  432.  @drumpfdon760  please go a head and cite me CCP media where they criticize Xi. Go ahead
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  433.  @drumpfdon760  hey, I saw you mentioned Michel Bachelet. Quote me exactly where she said did an investigation and quote me where she said China is innocent in Xinjiang. Go ahead
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  434.  @drumpfdon760  it’s so hilarious you brought up Michelle Bachelet and lied about what she said. Further proof of a vvumao
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  435.  @drumpfdon760  oh wait, so you don’t have anything about Michelle! Nothing you can quote where she said china was innocent? Why bring her up? Maybe because you didn’t think I would question your lie?
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  436.  @drumpfdon760  “criticizing and tell lies and BS are 2 totally different things”. So now the BBC is telling BS lies about the British government? Why would they do that?
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  437.  @drumpfdon760  And if Michelle didn’t say China was innocent, how can I quote you something that wasn’t said?
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  438.  @drumpfdon760  so you won’t ever give a quote from Michelle or the UN about the Xinjiang visit?
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  439.  @francisstephenperalta2823  Bring back trump? He was the reason republicans did terrible in mid term! But then again, you are defending the t-rr0st who raided the capitol
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  440.  @francisstephenperalta2823  how were lives a lot better under Trump? Murder rates rose. COVID went out of control and a million dead because trump didn’t Believe in it.
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  441. Sure wumao
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  442. The huge difference is that in more recent decades greatly benefited those countries to open up to the US. When countries accept communism, it makes them worse. Far worse.
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  443. "No, China has not benefited from this". China singed a huge energy deal with Russia and signed a friendship pact with Russia two weeks before the invasion while Russia had 150,000+ troops surrounding Ukraine. An invasion that intel suggest was delayed until after the Olympics to not distract from China's Olympics. They benefited based on their desire to cause pain on the west -- but you are right, if you remove that benefit that only is a benefit for Xi, China has not benefited from this.
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  444.  @TheGoldenEagle03  from one veteran of the US Army on War games: - I have never played the role of OPFOR (Opposing Forces) in a Military Exercise where we haven't utterly kicked the sh1t out of BLUFOR (US/NATO). I have played OPFOR in STEX Lanes we hold at the Battalion and Company Level. I have also played OPFOR in exercises similar to the ones held at JRTC/NTC, which are one or more Brigades (3500+ People) in a large scale simulated fight against one or more Enemy Brigades. - Spoiler Alert, BLUFOR always loses. Badly. Sometimes they actually achieve their objectives, but the cost is so high it would actually be considered a loss by the general public. Mostly though, they get put through a grinder that their leadership, or TRADOC leadership, uses to shape future Army Training and Equipment needs. *These types of exercises are stacked against BLUFOR from the start.*
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  445.  @magtafcmdr8621  i can’t bear these puns
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  446.  @davidmurphy563  he was joking about aluminum. How can you not understand it was just a joke?
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  447.  @Kevin-mk6jo  you’re also so obvious tr0||. You criticize Taiwan and criticize Saudi Arabia and criticize the US in all your comments — you’re a pro Russia pro China type
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  448.  @LordDefekator  they end up in jail because the people vote for criminals. The office doesn’t turn them into criminals, they always were criminals
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  449.  @junkeatng  the problem for China is that western consumers will force the brands to decide in either staying in China but getting boycotted in the west or leaving china and keeping the Western markets open. That will lead to a lot of western firms taking the losses in China and leaving the China market. But hey, you subscribe to paid CCP YouTubers like the Barrets so you’re interest here is defending China
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  450.  @junkeatng  “a new world order is taking shape”. That’s your way of saying why you support the oppressive the oppressive Chinese govt? The Barrett’s (who you follow) have been caught working on behalf of the Chi government. As is Daniel Dumrill who also works on behalf of the Chi govt. so you like to subscribe to westerners paid to defend china?
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  451.  @junkeatng  I’m describing the people you subscribe too — they are paid by the Chinese government to defend China’s govt, just like you. For example, what’s happening in Xinjiang?
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  452.  @junkeatng  EU is still buying Russian oil but have cut orders by 18% and will be cutting almost 100% be end of the year. How does that relate to anything you say? It’s obvious you do Not want the EU to stop buying Russian gas so enough with the fake concern vvumao
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  453.  @concernedliberal4453  "you can't attack the thought so you attack the thinker" said the alt right with the username "concerned liberal". Wow.
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  454. Yes. Infrastructure wasn’t cheap but housing and buildings were cheap and they were very poor once you leave big cities.
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  455.    more centralized than Scandinavia? Liar. Why are you so full of BS?
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  456.    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nazi_Germany The Great Depression had spurred increased state ownership in most Western capitalist countries. This also took place in Germany during the last years of the Weimar Republic.[39] However, after the Nazis took power, industries were privatized en masse. Several banks, shipyards, railway lines, shipping lines, welfare organizations, and more were privatized.[40] The Nazi government took the stance that enterprises should be in private hands wherever possible.[41] State ownership was to be avoided unless it was absolutely necessary for rearmament or the war effort, and even in those cases “the Reich often insisted on the inclusion in the contract of an option clause according to which the private firm operating the plant was entitled to purchase it.”
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  457.  @快乐的人-j8s  China doesn’t want to do anything? In your news in China do they mention china fired missiles over japan and Taiwan? Do they mention that China has an illegal fishing operation all across the region (and abroad — off coast of South America) that is protected by Chinas navy? Do they mention Xi’s threats to attack japan?
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  458.  @titaniumskunkogkush4365  the world needs peace yet you defend Chinas aggression? You defend chinas threats on Taiwan? Defend china shooting missiles near Japan. And I assume Defend Chinas camps of Uyghurs and Defend Chinas wolf warrior politics?
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  459.  @hovera7946  Weather is nice in Beijing. They pay you well? Have you had a chance to visit the camps in Xinjiang? No flood or blizzard where I'm at.
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  460.  @caspermac  btw, according to UNESCO, US has 1 million foreign students with 340k from China while China has 225k foreign student with only 20k from US. Chinas universities are so great that they 1/4 the number of foreign students as US and send 17x more students to US then US sends to China.
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  461.  @maddog5284  the ceiling now is much lower than ever. Besides first few months in office or if US is involved in war, the top you will see is probably 47% approval or so. So realistically if the economy was okay (not great but also not this high inflation), the base approval is around 42%. Anything below that is likely from economic worries.
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  462.  @maddog5284  On point of collapsing? US just added over 500,000 jobs and oil prices are shrinking. That's why I said the economy is mixed -- inflation is very high but jobs keep getting added and one of the major drivers of inflation (oil) is dropping. Oil was over $120/barrel and now under $90.
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  463.  @dthrust9037  we surpassed number of employed in Feb 2020 just last month
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  464.  ANTI-$TAT€  Jeff S is a communist defending authoritarian leftist
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  465. Slava Ukraini. Russia has had likely over 15k soldiers killed while US in Iraq over t0 years lost 4k. Russia is now losing ground and retreated from centran Ukraine and just lost the battle for Kharkiv.
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  466. That’s not why the west is helping but it certainly is a benefit
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  467. China faces a difficult dilemma. It's lent many risky loans to countries that are having financial problems. They will either follow through on debt trap diplomacy like they did in Sri Lanka or they will lose lots of money on those loans.
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  468. Nuclear weapons means North Korea can continue to act badly and oppress its people. So this means North Korea will remain like this for many decades or more.
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  469.  @ChinaSongsCollection  no way? Huh are Chinese and just happen to defend everything about China? Including their media? Yeah, media that isn’t allowed to criticize their government and run by the government is about the most untrustworthy media there is.
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  470.  @黄沙百战穿金甲  cutting off Chinas food supply is an act of war ..I’m pointing out the terrible position China is in compared to Russia
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  471.  @AFlyingCookieLOL  if you’re unable to make one criticism of your government, it’s a sign you have a contract with them or at the very least extremely bias that nothing you say can bet trusted. How do you think it’s reasonable that someone can’t even make one criticism of their government?
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  472.  @AFlyingCookieLOL  China is the biggest importer of food by far and it imports many key foods. They grow 1.5, more wheat than Russia but have 10x more people so per capita, they produce 1/6 the wheat that Russia produces.
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  473. Basically nothing happened there. Big powers will not go to war with each other
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  474.  @DimitarBerberu  So you're saying that China has'n't sent millions of Muslims to camps? I'm sorry, "schools" or whatever your CCP says? What's money slavery? Is that when everyone in the country has to do what the unelected goverment says in order to get paid? F-ke news? You mean like literally every media in China that only reports what the CCP says?
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  475.  @汝爱花否  plundering poor countries? So what do you think China is doing? And China is also looking invade a peaceful country (Taiwan), steal the South China Sea from its neighbors, support the evil Russia invasion of Ukraine. How is that going to make the world better? In addition, they are trying to export their censorship and oppression. Why support a country that does all that and won’t even allow people to choose their government nor get any news other than government controlled news? Saying something negative against Xi can get you sent to prison!
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  476.  @Moabi4  China is e-v1l. Stop supporting it
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  477.  @thenonexistinghero  you’re in Russia?
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  478.  @valyshknee4203  you just be extreme right wing if you think that about Netherlands. Or a Russian pretending to be Dutch. Since you defended Putin in another comment and refused to accept he’s basically a dictator today, I’m going to guess you’re actually Moscow government worker.
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  479.  @valyshknee4203  well, a russian Dutch. That explains everything— your allegiance is the evil country your parents escaped and not the country you were born in. Dictators can be like by the people — just look at Xi in China. Why do you think Putin and the CCP control all news and information? Why do you think they eliminate opposition and arrest people who protest against them? If they loved by their people without being br-âin w-áshed, why do they need to control news and information and highly limit speech and press?
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  480. 4:37 joke made that tartar sauce has nothing to do with the Tatar/Tartare people. However, steak tartare is a reference to the Tatar / Tartare.
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  481.  @bestbuilder7833  So now only urban areas matter? BTW, around the same time VisualPolitik released this video they released a video of the caste system in India and how it's still showing up in the data. But I guess facts don't matter. I assume you are not a lower caste?
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  482.  @aytraf  Also, VisualPolitik also released a video about the data showing the caste system is still in effect at least indirectly. The data all proves it. It's like Americans saying racism was stopped in the 1960's with the civil rights act.
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  483.  @bestbuilder7833  “you are not even from India” is what I hear indian nationalist say all the time to anyone that makes any criticism of India. Just like the Chinese nationalist do with criticism of China. No difference. The video on caste system is from last week titled “how the caste system is preventing indias take off”
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  484.  @bestbuilder7833  The video from visualpolitii on caste system is from last week titled “how the caste system is preventing indias take off”
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  485.  @bestbuilder7833  I'm saying it's problem in India as a whole, not just the rural areas. If the caste system effect was only in small isolated villages, then it wouldn't show up in the data. Have you seen this channels episode on the caste system?
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  486. People didn’t think Ukraine had the will to fight and yet here we are. Free Xinjiang! Free Tibet! Free West Taiwan from the PRC!
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  487. Most of what Australia exports is raw materials or foods which is globally traded and new buyers can be found, though might have to sell it a little lower. My point is that Australia doesn’t depend on China as much as the basic economic trade data shows.
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  488.  @Nick-jn2fq  Kuhan said in another comment “Australia is racist and incompetent. Asia found out”. It’s a CCP account.
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  489.  @divya9951  I dont know what to make your incorrect comment. Just not educated or vvumao trying to defend China.
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  490. @lati long closer economic ties generally improve their relations but that alone isn’t enough. The west having more Trade with India Vietnam help to decouple from China so that’s the number one reason for it. The claim the Anglosphere (actually the west in general but me thinks you’re anti west) was too generous to China does indeed have real basis. China was given preferential trade conditions and the west allowed China for years to have a system where any foreign company has to partner up with Chinese locals (10% ownership?) and that Chinese company or individual would often steal IP and trade secrets. The west allowed it for years believing that continued trade with China will eventually lead to a softer and more friendly China but then Xi changed everything.
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  491. @lati long also, one of the main benefits of the “anglosphere” for most countries is the protection of trade routes around the world. If Russia or China or USSR before had control of the seas around the world, they would not be so kind .
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  492.  @user-jt3dw6vv4x  “Australia is Enslaved to the US too”. Get out of here. And to prove you wrong in how your suggesting they US is bad for Australia, why doesn’t Australia just say no to the US and evict them out of Australia? Oh, that’s because the US provides a huge defense for Australia in case, I don’t know, the China you are defending attacks or wants to bully Australia?
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  493.  @user-jt3dw6vv4x  you enjoy the free seas because the US keeps them free. You enjoy being safe from foreign powers because the US. And China - Australia relations were strained because some Australians didn’t like the camps in Xinjiang, the crackdown on Hong Kong, and China hiding Covid for so long. But it ultimately became strained because China is a bully and won’t accept criticism from other countries so if you want o be a puppet of China, how would that be better for Australia?
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  494.  @user-jt3dw6vv4x  so if Australia wasn’t scared of China, they wouldn’t need US to have a base in Australia and wouldn’t (in your words) act like a puppet of the US, right???
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  495.  @user-jt3dw6vv4x  Indonesia isn’t standing in it own. It’s being bullied by China in the South China Sea. So is Vietnam. You know nothing..
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  496.  @user-jt3dw6vv4x  are you paid by Beijing?
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  497. With 150k russian troops ready to invade, china makes a friendship pact with Russia, signs $117b trade deal, and spreads Russian propaganda— but China is shocked Russia invades? China knew.
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  498.  @piruz3243  You're saying the the USSR that was HIGHLY oppressing it's people who had zero access to travel or to make any criticism and where millions were sent to gulags and died and who were involved in so many wars --- was better than Russia post USSR? Wow.
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  499.  @piruz3243  "The Iranian revolution was about political freedom and not Islam. One of the main reasons it became Islamic was the deception of Khomeini who promised political freedom when he was in France. " Yes, and they know better not to repeat it. You just want to defend the horrible oppressive regimes of the world by saying "it will never work out!" and ignoring that it did work out for so many. You bring up France...yeah, it took 70 years but it still happened and it lead to revolutions elsehwere that were much quicker in progress but you ignored.
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  500.  @piruz3243  i said in the long run, revolutions against unelected leaders generally lead to better countries. There are exceptions but those are few. I do agree that COMMUNIST revolutions are bad. The revolutions must be in support of being able to elect leaders thus the reason I mentioned “revolutions against UNELECTED leaders”. Just about every democracy today came about from revolution of some type.
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  501.  @piruz3243  Iranians current revolution is pro democracy and history shows that those generally lead to a better country in the long run. 79 revolution wasn’t pro democracy — it just wanted the shah removed. There were communist and religious groups working together who both opposed democracy and there were indeed smaller groups who were part of the revolution but were pro democracy. The revolution today in Iran would not settle for another ayatollah.
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  502.  @piruz3243  what’s funny is you’re suggesting that it’s more likely to get worse in the long run for Iranians when it’s already really bad and probably can’t get worse than the current system. This is why you’re comments are so troubling — you’re suggesting it’s likely to get worse based on nothing but ignoring that it’s already about as bad as it will get. There really is only one way to go and it’s progress. even if the next government has issues it is more likely to be better than the current regime who is considering executing 16,000 protesters!
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  503.  @piruz3243  well, I think you’re type of comments and OP often come off as being opposed to revolution against oppressive non elected leaders. Sure, not every revolution turns out well with many already from the start being bad when it’s a revolution to install another oppressive non democratic leader. But it really doesn’t seem to apply to Iran right now. This is anti Islamic government and pro democracy movement. The 79 revolution was lead by two major groups — religious extremist and communist. While both may have said they would support democracy, those type of groups rarely democratic. And in no way am I saying getting rid of the ayatollah regime will lead to smooth transition but I’m confident in the long run it will work out for them. The only possible major problem for Iran is if Kurdish region tries to break away from Iran while Iran is trying to sort out its issues. But even a free Kurdistan might be good in the good long run.
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  504.  @piruz3243  reminder of the 1979 revolution without further context will appear to be in favor of keeping the status quote. That’s how many of them operate online so without context it just looks like that. I saw that so much from pro CCP Chinese about Hong Kong. They pretend to care for Hong Kong people and many claim to be from Hong Kong but argue against the protests because it’s better not to fight the CCP.
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  505.  @piruz3243  I feel very bad for the Kurds. The Brits drew boundaries to divide the Middle East and keep people separate and in the process never gave the Kurds a country but always as the big minority to create conflict of interest- Iran Iraq and Turkey. Such a large population divided by 3 countries. Realistically, I can see them ever getting an independent country. Few countries are willing to give up lands. It’s happened relatively peaceful at times (but few) in say europe and I guess you can say the US did it with some of its territories but those US territories were not very vital to the US.
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  506.  @ruleoftwo6174  comment doesn’t show probably for the last word. Try reposting without it. Does my original comment show? It would be above yours
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  507. China is certainly very poor. I agree. I’ve traveled through China and once you leave the rich touristy or business parts of the major cities, it get very poor quickly. Even see a lot more dog meat shops
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  508.  Prehistoric Postmodernist  has Castillo considered not doing a coup?
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  509.  Prehistoric Postmodernist  what is a 10 percenter? And what’s anti dictator Vote? What is obvious is you defend leftist dictators and wannabe dictators in Castillo and Maduros. Probably also cuba.
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  510.  @user-jt3dw6vv4x  Asia found out how racist and incompetent Australia is so many Asians moved to Australia. OPs argument doesn’t hold but he’s paid by the CCP.
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  511.  @user-jt3dw6vv4x  OP Is from India and yet he as a few comments defending China and criticizing Australia. He’s choosing China over India when China is the enemy of Australia. Almost as if these Beijing workers might come up usernames that would mislead you where they are from.
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  512. You haven’t been here for a while? Simon left like 10 videos ago
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  513.  @tawandamachona4481  “China only holds 21%”. That is the dumbest defense I’ve seen. 21%…from one single country!! And hey, what’s your view on the genocide happening in Xinjiang? I’m asking because China is using this debt to defend a genocide. Do you believe concentration camps as part of a genocide are happening in Xinjiang?
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  514.  @GeoScorpion  "Koreans HATE Japan." Koreans now hate China and of course North Korea even more than Japan so South Korea is becoming closer to Japan by necessity. Everyone in that region hates China the most.
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  515. Comrade Zhou, i totally believe you. Free Xinjiang! Free Tibet! Free Hong Kong! Free West Taiwan!
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  516. Slava Urkaini comrade Jay Bee
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  517.  @nickyliu8762  Curtis Jackson, several countries sell oil with other currencies than the USD.
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  518.  @ChinaSongsCollection  “if there was forum i could share video links”…sent through YOUTUBE. What do you think YouTube is? Is this your way of saying (as I expected) that you defend the g8nocde of the Uyghurs? What video do you have? Is it of the conc camps? Is it of the torturing?
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  519.  @黄沙百战穿金甲  what a surprise. I am also Uyghurs who just recently fled Xinjiang!
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  520.  @黄沙百战穿金甲  sure, give me your address fellow Uyghur and I’ll stop by next time I go to Xinjiang to visit my family once they are out of the camps
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  521.  @黄沙百战穿金甲  you are Indian pretending to be uyghur?
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  522.  @黄沙百战穿金甲  oh, you think I’m the Indian! While you pretend to be uyghur using Chinese characters. Got it! Can’t trust the Chinese
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  523.  @americanidiotinchief259  because I know you won’t reply with a source on the UN, here are some quotes: - Michelle Bachelet's long-planned trip this week has taken her to the far-western region, where China is alleged to have detained over a million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities, as well as carried out forced sterilisation of women and coerced labour. - But Bachelet insisted Saturday her visit was "not an investigation". - This visit was not an investigation," she told reporters - It is the first trip to China by the UN's top rights envoy in 17 years and comes after painstaking negotiations over the conditions of her visit, which the UN says is neither a fact-finding mission nor a probe So not an investigation at all. Fourth for: - In her strongest comments aimed at Beijing, Bachelet urged China to avoid "arbitrary and indiscriminate measures" in its crackdown in Xinjiang So she said China is doing horrible things
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  524.  @黄沙百战穿金甲  oh, you think I’m the Indian! While you pretend to be uyghur using Chinese characters. Got it! Can’t trust the 🇨🇳 people
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  525.  @ChinaSongsCollection  YT removes comments for no reasons - it’s annoying
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  526.  @恺祺朱  五毛?
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  527. A week later and I still can’t figure out exactly how i pronounce it. Like caramel, pecan , and data.
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  528.  @carlramirez6339  just realized I sometimes have a small pause on “clear”. “New-clea-er”.
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  529. Who threats Putin? Who write title?
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  530.  Chí Phèo nguyễn  dude, you aren’t even following the conversation or you are trolling. This is about communism and capitalism...therefore about communist China and communist USSR.
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  531. @W.A M.P chi pheo isn’t even making coherent arguments. Just a troll
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  532.  @vTruongCuong  ok, well Vietnam dumped what many consider communism. Even you would agree with that? That Vietnam if better off for embracing more capitalist policies.
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  533.  @vTruongCuong  so long as you embrace capitalism, you prosper. The more wealthy you get, the less capitalism you need. But for sure, to go from poor country and move into middle income country, you need to embrace more capitalism like China, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, Ethiopia and Chile.
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  534.  @ruggeddiscipline6026  this is the dumbest comment I’ve seen
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  535.  @ruggeddiscipline6026  nothing for the first 400 years since there was little contact with sub Saharan Africa and then lots of bad for some 150 years. Then lots of good for the last 40 or so years.
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  536.  @ruggeddiscipline6026  you’re extremely uneducated if you aren’t aware of the aid and support provided in the past 40 years. How can you be so uneducated on a topic that guy seem passionate about?
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  537.  @ruggeddiscipline6026  spoken like an extremely uneducated person.
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  538. EU would rather make sure that international norms of respecting sovereignty are adhered to than make peace with Russia. Yeah, that’s the act of heroes — making sacrifices for the greater good
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  539. Lol. It just came out!
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  540. Mexico has too much corruption and consistently has a government that just wants to give money away to the poor rather than use the money to build up infrastructure, improve education, and and make more business friendly environment. Almost all the success stories in Asia were from that playbook. Until Mexico makes proper reforms and spends the money on things that will improve business and trade, mexico will just have modest gains relative to Asia.
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  541.  Johnson Li  also, 4 Covid deaths this year? Even though they reported tens of thousands of infected this year? Lol, that would mean that it’s 1/100 as deadly in China than in the rest of the world. Are you allowed to criticize China or do you just believe what the CCP tells you?
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  542.  @P4DR  you subscribe to Grayzone which is a mis info organization where there is evidence it’s founder has ties to Russia which is why they ONLY write positive stories about Russia China Maduro and Assad in Syria. Says a lot about you
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  543.  @sleepyjoe4529  China is expected to have double the US population in 2100 but Chinas gdp per capita is 1/4 the US. China might actually drop to 3rd in population by 2100 behind India and Nigeria
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  544.  @internetuser2721  Chinas working age population peaking might be why it’s growth is slowing. This year will be the 2nd year in 3 years they will have growth under 4%.
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  545.  @Superpooper-2020  Comrade Zhou, i totally believe you. Free Xinjiang! Free Tibet! Free Hong Kong! Free West Taiwan!
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  546.  @keyboardmanyoutube3189  the ones in Xinjiang are in conc camps so that might be more important. After that, I agree, free those in India.
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  547.  @internetuser2721  100%. The demographics is why the base level gdp of China isn’t 10% but say 6-7% now. And then it’s lower than that because of the factors you mentioned that are more short term such as mounting debt, Real estate crisis, and COVID lockdowns. And the CCP hasn’t been honest about gdp figures with some estimates saying China inflated their gdp numbers by 1-2% points which is a lot when taken over 20 years. Given that China opening up more means it’s more difficult to hide gdp numbers, it’s possible a big part of the decline is less padding to the gdp.
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  548.  @ChinaSongsCollection  ive traveled inland China. It’s very poor and parts are as poor as Africa. Not sure of cave livin but many do live in shacks and huts in certain areas. I also think inland China is beautiful but mainstream China tries to hide inland China because the CCP is too worried about looking rich.
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  549.  @ChinaSongsCollection  nah, CCP is trying to hide it. Xi only focuses on the FORMERLY poor areas and you know this. And when state media shows the poor areas, it’s the beautiful village life only not the dirt poor types. You also know this. Free Xinjiang!! Free Tibet! Free Hong Kong! Free West Taiwan!
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  550.  @ChinaSongsCollection  guy blindly defending China is upset with free Xinjiang. Hey, what’s going on Xinjiang? Are you allowed to say? Seems like you defends g8nocide with the way you have been defending Xi so far. But please prove to us that dont defend the g8nocide in Xinjiang
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  551.  @J_X999  that AI would be available for the world too. So China would still decline relative to other economies
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  552.  @ChinaSongsCollection  just saw your other comments here — you are vvumao, right? No way will you acknowledge the horrible Things in Xinjiang — you are defending Chinas horrible wolf warrior diplomacy! The tactic they used to respond to any criticism about COVID and Xinjiang.
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  553.  @J_X999  but the AI would be available for much of the world. You don’t think Japan or South Korea with even more expensive labor would be able to use AI? As for hypersonic missiles, japan and South Korea don’t invest in that because it doesn’t make them any money. Russia has weapons many rich countries don’t have but that doesn’t mean Russia is doing better economically (in fact they are poor, on par with Mexico or Colombia). Chinas gdp this year will under 4%. That will be 2nd time in 3 years they are under 4%.
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  554.  @J_X999  Japan with super expensive labor and low productivity as you claim isn’t using AI? Wow, it’s almost as if the perfect nation for AI isn’t using AI then it’s not the solution you claim. But when it does become a viable solution, AI would be used by Japan even more than China because Japan has much higher labor costs. And Chinas economic growth is slowing and will be under 4% for the 2nd time in 3 years — I guess AI doesn’t work that well.
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  555.  @Superpooper-2020  I do beleive kashmIr should be free. And also Tibet, Xinjiang Hong Kong, and West Taiwan (PRC). Why do you support g8nocide in Xinjiang?
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  556.  @J_X999  “given japans track record”. What does that mean? There has never been AI that’s been useful so what track record are you talking about? And what labor productively rate are you talking about? How are you measuring it? I feel like you are making stuff up about japan
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  557.  @J_X999  Japan’s growth stagnated because their work force began to shrink in the 90’s. It wasn’t because their labor became unproductive— it was mostly declining workforce. It’s working age population is down 14% from its peak in 1995!
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  558.  @J_X999  Japan has seen a 14% decline of its working age population since 1995 so you can bet demographics is the leading factor for Japan’s stagnation. It also ranks number 21 in the world in per capita productivity, ahead of Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea. At 21 it can improve but it’s not as bad as you say and you are incorrect to suggest demographics isn’t the biggest issue
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  559.  @J_X999  also, many of comments also don’t show up. YT does that often
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  560.  @drumpfdon760  do I see a decline in China exports? Well, people have been spending far more on goods since the pandemic started but China is expected to see GDP growth under 4% for the 2nd time this year in 3 years so yeah — there is some decouping. Many companies are moving some of their operations to Vietnam, India, Bangladesh and Mexico. China’s gdp annual growth is now becoming normal — under 4% will be the norm. They won’t make high income country ever at this pace — unlike their neighbors South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan who hit high income years ago before their growth came down to normal
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  561.  @drumpfdon760  japan stagnated in the 90’s because their working age population has shrank 14% since it peaked in 1995. Hey vvumao, are you allowed to say what’s going on in Xinjiang
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  562.  @drumpfdon760  fun fact, the plaza across was actually the 80’s and had little impact on japan. It was japans 14% decline of working age population. Also, japan was manipulating their currency which lead to the plaza accords
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  563.  @drumpfdon760  so you ignore the 14% decline in working age population? Plaza affords where in 1985. Between 1987-1990, those 4 years each had 4.7% to 6.8% gdp growth. No year between 1980 and 1984 had a higher year of growth than any single year 1987-1990. So late 80’s had considerably bigger growth than early 80’s in Japan. Why won’t you accept these facts and why won’t you accept there is a g8noc1de in Xinjiang?
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  564.  @drumpfdon760  why can’t you acknowledge the g8noc1de in Xinjiang? Contract won’t allow it?
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  565.  @drumpfdon760  I literally gave you the gdp growth before and after the plaza and after the plaza accord, it had its best growth in years. Are you saying japan and the world bank are wrong about the gdp growth of that period?
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  566.  @drumpfdon760  free Xinjiang! Free Tibet! Free Hong Kong! Free west Taiwan from the PRC!
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  567.  @drumpfdon760  long term impact? So it took a decade to impact — coincidence it was when the demographic issue happens. Do you also know what happens when population declines? Housing prices drop and crash.
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  568.  @drumpfdon760  why can’t you admit what China is doing in Xinjiang?
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  569.  @drumpfdon760  yeah, early 90’s, and Working population growth was zero and started declining shortly afterwards. Nothing defends your argument that 1985 plaza accord led to shrinking economy 6-7 years later when in those 6 years it was among the highest growth Japan had since the 60’s. Why can’t you admit what’s going on in Xinjiang? Are u on a contract?
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  570.  @Superpooper-2020  india only wishes they can do g8noc1de as good as China does in Xinjiang.
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  571.  @drumpfdon760  wait, you are contractually unable to admit the g8noc1de in Xinjiang l?
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  572.  @drumpfdon760  and you say the plaza accord was one of the main factors for the decline of japans economy even though for the 6 years after the accords, japan had their best economic growth since the 60’s? Japans economic growth in each of final 4 years of the 80’s (87-90) was higher than every year between 1980-1984. In fact,all 4 years 87-90 were higher than all but two years between 2 of the 11 years 1974-1984.
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  573.  @drumpfdon760  another way to put it, between 1974-1990, 1987-1990 had 4 of the top 6 years.
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  574.  @drumpfdon760  you are also forgetting that Japan was manipulating its currency which is unfair trade practice which lead to the plaza accords
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  575.  @drumpfdon760  there is a study that calls out the typical conspiracy you vvumaos use on this topic: - One legacy of the Plaza is a sort of conspiracy theory that has continued to circulate widely in Asia. The theory is that the United States deliberately sabotaged the Japanese economy. The most common version is that the effect came via endaka, the strong yen, which priced Japanese manufacturing out of world markets.33 The idea is that the US successfully used this weapon against Japan at the Plaza in 1985, then against Korea in 1988-89, and against China in the years since 2004. - In some ways the suspicion is understandable, given the long-time pattern of pressure from the US Treasury on Asian countries to appreciate their currencies. It is true that the yen appreciated sharply against the dollar after the Plaza, more than did the European currencies. - It is also true that Japan’s GDP has mostly stagnated since 1990, after decades of strong growth. But the timing is not quite right for the conspiracy theory. In between the 1985-86 appreciation of the yen and the Japanese recessions of the 1990s came the bubble years 1987- 89, when exchange rate policy was no longer working to push the yen up, but rather to support the dollar. A variant of the conspiracy theory is that Japanese purchases of dollars during the bubble years led to excessive money growth and thereby to the soaring prices of equities and real estate in Japan. The bursting of that bubble then led to the Japanese recession. But this is virtually the opposite of the theory that the Plaza did it: buying dollars is the opposite of selling dollars.
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  576.  @drumpfdon760  I literally gave you quotes for research saying the plaza accord didn’t cause japans economy to stagnate for 30 years and I gave you the facts that the 6 years after the plaza accord japan had its best growth since the 60’s but you just ignored it? In addition, you bring up France and Germany? Germany would have some strong growth as well in late 80’s and early 90’s peaking at 5.26% and 5.11% in 1990 and 1991, it’s highest 2 yrs of growth in decades. Even more proof the plaza accord didn’t cause what you say. Oh, and France also had tremendous growth in late 80’s, peaking at 4.7% in 1988 which is the biggest growth year since 1974. Second biggest growth year for France since 1974??? 1989.
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  577.  @drumpfdon760  so basically the research says plaza accords didn’t cause japans downfall, Japan saw it’s best growth after the 60’s was 87-90…and Germany and France also had their best growth years in the few years after the plaza accord. Almost seems like they all benefited from the plaza accords. In comparison, the US saw smaller growth in the late 80’s than japan Germany and France and US peaked in late 90’s
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  578.  @drumpfdon760  I’m confused why you ask 1980-2000 Japan? From 1970-2022, the best growth was 1987-1990. Mid and late 80’s was also best years for Germany and France over the past 40 years. You said plaza accords destroyed those countries yet they all had their best economic growth shortly after the plaza accords. Only Japan would later have issues because their working population began to decline. Same will happen to China. China bad
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  579.  @drumpfdon760  free Xinjiang! Free Tibet! Free west Taiwan from PRC!
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  580.  @drumpfdon760  it’s funny that you do now accept that all 3 countries had their best growth in the years after the plaza accords but you now twist it and say “well, it was all downhill after that!” What’s great way to make something good look bad. I guess China joining the wto which lead to 10%+ growth 2000-2010 was horrible because it’s growth has declined since then!!
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  581.  @drumpfdon760  “China deliberately slowing down their economic growth to rebalance”. Wow, that sounds like it’s literally from the CCP mouth. This year will be the 2nd time in 3 years their economic growth will under 4%! They are slowly becoming normal growth before they even close to a high income nation! South Korea and Japan made it to high income, China won’t!
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  582.  @drumpfdon760  oh man, do you really believe what you just typed or did you Type it because your paid to do so? Suggesting China is actually in par with South Korea or Taiwan on per capita? I’ve traveled through China and it’s extremely poor once you leave the city and the “villages” (they are cities but under 1 million) in the inland of China are poor. 3 years ago I got my shoes cleaned on the street of a downtown in a village for about $1 USD. You won’t see that in South Korea or Taiwan.
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  583.  @vchanpe1  where did you hear that? In China? Japans national debt was consistent and relatively low mid 80’s to 90’s. It didn’t spike until after their economy stagnated and I’m guessing it spiked in an attempt to stimulate japans economy
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  584.  @vchanpe1  seriously, where did you hear the debt is the primary reason for japans stagnation? CGTN that you subscribe to?
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  585.  @vchanpe1  common sense? So not true given the spike in debt didn’t happen until after they started stagnanting.
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  586.  @vchanpe1  yes, I took Econ 101 and 102. I understand everything but it seems you made it up to defend your precious China
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  587.  @vchanpe1  to prove Victor Chans purpose is to defend PRC, can you acknowledge there is a gén -cide in Xinjiang?
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  588.  @marcoaorelio6409  latest research shows it may have already peaked and China is hiding it.
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  589.  @johnrock7255  I agree, the US should have let Japan destroy China. The world would be much better today.
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  590.  @ObeySilence  Russian army so weak that Ukraine had basically no military 9 years ago and now holding their ground against Russia
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  591.  @davidsanchez861  japan Italy and Germany. Sounds about reich. Don’t be Russian to into this pun game.
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  592. Because we spend massive money to make sure as few soldiers die. After Vietnam war, we value the soldiers lives much more
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  593. Detroit metro hasn’t grown as much a other metros over the decades. It’s grown only 10% since 1960. In comparison, Chicago metro grew around 50% in that time
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  594.  @vyom7387  the Mughals mostly did have it unified but for a short time. They quickly lost the South where a little bit wasn’t conquered. When the Brits came, Mughals had already lost most of their lands. I guess it was culturally United but so many languages and so many religions that I don’t know how united culturally it was
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  595.  @shifusensei6442 that’s where I saw the leprechaun. He told me to burn things
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  596.  @cameronbruce1862  it’s funny because it says a lot about you that you re pro Russia and supporting the invasion of peaceful country.
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  597.  @AnotherAmerican91  I’m not sure what “a little bit both” means but I agree with the rest. People do work harder when they are free.
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  598.  @zainkhalil21  handed all the Arab countries to iran? But many Arab countries are aligned with the US and against Iran.
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  599.  @zainkhalil21  you’re confusing me in that you say US has no Arab Allies then now argue they do but those allies are weak? Which is it?
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  600.  @zainkhalil21  hey, so does the US have Arab Allies or does it not? You don’t even care to tell the truth
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  601.  @zainkhalil21  you just listed all the money is allied with the US. Lol.
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  602.  @zainkhalil21  you do realize more than half the Middle East is against Iran?
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  603.  @zainkhalil21  they will fight with Israel if it’s against a common enemy. By your new logic, Iran has zero allies. So what’s your point. Iran only has paper allies.
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  604.  @zainkhalil21  no one is going war against Israel or Saudi Arabia as well. What was the point of your posts?
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  605.  @zainkhalil21  you sound anti Semitic
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  606.  @zainkhalil21  I don’t know what the point was of all your mis info
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  607.  @zainkhalil21  Why are you spreading mis -info? You've changed your position from "no allies for US" to "well, yes they have the rich allies but they don't have the army" to etc. etc.
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  608.  @علي-ش7ث8ب  if the US is trying to get rid of Israel and arab states, does that mean they backing the Persians? I’m not sure what your comment was suggesting.
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  609.  @علي-ش7ث8ب  “us wants to take advantage by dividing Muslims”. It’s literally the Iranian government driving Muslims Shia vs Sunni. That’s why they are funding separatist groups and terrorist in the Islamic world. Why deny these facts?
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  610.  @علي-ش7ث8ب  Playing along? They are behind much of the division!
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  611.  @kevinconde1874  Saudi Arabia is also bad like Iran. But Saudi Arabia is a little less bad and willing to work with Israel and the US to check Iran.
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  612.  @Gnashercide  except Iran is the one starting stuff all across the region
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  613.  @Gnashercide  Iran didn’t start anything…except armed them Houthis in Yemen, Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and some other group in Syria — all t8rr0rist.
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  614.  Prehistoric Postmodernist  he attempted to bully a sec of state isn’t anywhere near on par with “he attempted to fire all of congress and enable dictatorial powers”. How bad must own be to try to equate the two.
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  615.  Prehistoric Postmodernist  and my whole point was that what Castillo did was much worse - not on par. But you disagreed with me that they aren’t in par with each other.
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  616. He also spoke about India and Australia and little bit about Taiwan. Though not mentioned, New Zealand is part of the discussion. So what would you call that collection of countries?
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  617.  @arcqian143  why is China offending its trading partners “for no reason”? Why are they committing g8noc1de? Why did Russia invade Ukraine and now made NATO stronger and Russias economy will drop 10%? Countries run by authoritarian oppressive ‘dictators’ do lots of things
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  618.  @arcqian143  "I'm just a patriot who wants to defend my own country, just like you." Except you deny the facts, support a g8noc1de, and support oppression. I am free to heavily criticize my govt where needed -- I think Trump should be arrested, the government does a terrible job at dealing with r@c1sm in the US, etc. You are a vvumao or chinese nationalist who defends EVERYTHING about your govt but there is not difference between the two -- a vvumao is paid and Chinese nationalist does it for free.
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  619.  @arcqian143  People denying g8noc1de go to he!! You defending the g8noc1de today in China is me defending slavery in the US 19th century— except I don’t defend it
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  620.  @kylebritt1225  replace vv with a w. It’s an online user who is working to defend all things Chinese government. They tend to be unable to criticize their government and take their governments position above anyone else regardless of the facts. One dead giveaway is their refusal to acknowledge the atrocity in Xinjiang or they flat out defend it.
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  621. The alternative is no sanctions which is worse. Slave Ukraini
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  622. What part did he lie about?
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  623.  @wakeup3018 what part did he lie about that was mentioned in this video?
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  624. Odd how neither of these individuals in this chain have any other comments in this channel. And both accounts started in 2016 just a couple months apart
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  625. Great video. He was certainly very flawed before the war but has proven to be a great war time president. One possible upside to the war is that Zelensky or whoever replaces him will now actually take on corruption and try to greatly minimize it. Zelensky just removed several officials this month for corruption -- so it's possible. Before the war, Ukraine and Russia were arguably the two most corrupt. After this war, Russia will stay among the most corrupt but there is a possibility Ukraine will improve. I follow a Ukrainian living in the US who has a YT channel about life in the Soviet Union. He's a Russian speaking Ukrainian like Zelensky. He was negative on Zelensky before the war and than he did another video about Zelensky a few months after the war started. He changed his mind on Zelensky not because he was wrong but because Zelensky has changed or has handled the new chapter far better than the previous chapter.
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  626.  @monkofdarktimes  Slava Ukraini comrade. At first they came for the.... My point is that its not just about Ukraine, it's about all of Europe. If all u care about money then you should care about our trading partners. But chances r u just care about Russia. Glory to Ukraine.
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  627.  @monkofdarktimes  "given how this is in Russia backyard and the situation." Europe is in Russia's backyard. So your saying let Russia just take Europe if it wanted? "NATO has broken enough promises with Russia " There we go comrade. You can't hide your true colors. You don't care for the US spending money, ur goal is defending Russia. Yes, It's NATOs fault that Russia is a big aggressive ape looking to keep colonies, right comrade?
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  628.  @monkofdarktimes  I can see you defending Russia and criticizing Ukraine/west in many other comments. U are very obvious. Why isn't Zelensky of 'Ukranian stock' in ur opinion?
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  629.  @monkofdarktimes  gripes yet all you do is defend them and criticize the west and Ukraine.
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  630. AMLO is horrible. No different than Castillo or Maduro. same for Colombias new President Petro. Leftist authoritarians are a plague in Latin America
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  631.  @inuwooddog3027  oh, I’m totally shock you don’t think there is some truly horrible thing going on Xinjiang. It’s almost like you vvumaos are so easy to spot? So you don’t believe that Chinas govt is sending likely millions of innocent Muslims in Xinjiang since 2017 to camps? You don’t believe the evidence of the camps existing? Evidence that 2/3 of mosques have been destroyed or damaged? Evidence of mass torture? You think it’s all fake? So shocking
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  632.  @inuwooddog3027  free Xinjiang! Free Tibet! Free West Taiwan from PRC!
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  633.  @inuwooddog3027  because you said so. I guess pictures showing a mosque there one day and then gone the next day is not proof it was destroyed. I guess pictures of camps appearing suddenly in recent years — not proof. I guess hacked CCP documents detailing their torture — not evidence. I guess if you are being paid, there is no evidence against China!
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  634.  @inuwooddog3027  there are public toilets demolished as well? So you’re saying that China is indeed destroying or damaging most mosques in Xinjiang? Do your bosses know you admitted that?
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  635.  @inuwooddog3027  “it’s awkward” but it’s literally what you said and suggested. So you did suggest Chinese govt destroyed or damaged 2/3 of mosques in a few short years but you seem to think it doesn’t mean much? Then we have pictures and evidence of some 380 camps built to house these detainees. Then we have hacked CCP documents detailing their plan to mass arrest Muslims for what amounts to simply practicing Islam and then other hacked CCP documents detailing how they treat the Muslim detainees including torture and admitting the detainees will be shot if they leave (“Xinjiang police files”). But sure, none of that means anything because you acknowledge you are a vvumao
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  636.  @Abhishek-li6ci  republicans love modi because of modis b8gotry towards Muslims and his authoritarian and anti democratic rule. Modi is basically Trump which is india is becoming an international pariah like China
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  637.  @inuwooddog3027  I’m asking you questions but you refuse to answer — because it demonstrates u r vvümao
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  638. Very few countries / government care that much about religious groups - it’s mostly just a way to control people. This is even more true in religious autocracies
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  639. Slava Ukraini
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  640. Which did choose? It’s now part of history
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  641.  @J_X999  demographics is the leading cause of their stagnation. Productivity can improve but it’s still a small effect compared to demographic. Productivity is also hard to truly measure — certain industries will of course have higher productivity than others so many of the top are involved heavily in banking, financial or tech. According to Brookings research, Japans productivity per hour work has been about constant when measured against Germany and the US. That’s to say it’s alway been about the same percentage behind Germany and US thus it’s a constant over time. This suggest two things — the stagnation came from demographic collapses and one way to get out of stagnation is to improve productivity since Japan won’t be able to reverse the demographic crisis.
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  642.  @J_X999  Japan's slowdown started in 90 or 91 but yes the housing bubble crash was a big part. Demographics have a huge part to play just like they do in China's housing crisis today. When population beings to decline or stagnate and housing prices had been increasing, you are going to see the bubble burst. But Japan's economic growth had been slowing down in the 70's and 80's. The population growth had already been shrinking. It was around 1.3% population growth in early 70's and slowly declined to around 0.3% in 1990. It continued to decline since then and is now 0.5%. So when they 'recovered' from the housing bubble crash, it didn't truly show in the economic indicators because their population growth continued to shrink. They hit their peak working age population in the 90's, just been on decline since then.
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  643.  @J_X999  individual worker productivity has increased roughly at same rate as Germany and US. They just never caught up.
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  644.  @J_X999  demographic crisis would alway have an effect. Just his big depends on how much gains in productivity Japan can accomplish. China is already hitting the early parts of demographic crisis. Housing crisis and Banking crisis — fewer workers means a slowing economy and fewer people with all that housing bubble means housing prices are starting to drop. People are protesting, not paying loans, etc. The next few years will be tough on China especially if the housing market actually crashes.
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  645.  @jaybee4577  comrade, I already know Ur evil. No need to write it down
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  646.  @commie5211  And yet China produces only a small fraction of the total world output and US Dollar is accepted everywhere. And those deals are only for oil trade, nothing else. So in the whole world economy, only China's purchase of oil with #2, #3, 9 and #25 are done in Yuan. And all all those countries are selling in US dollar to everyone else.
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  647.  @commie5211  There's a reason even those countries you mentioned only made the deal for oil. Most countries buy more from China than they sell to China. If they are going to use the Yuan, they need to hold reserves in Yuan. The SeeSeePee has zero transparency in their currency and make it hard to buy and sell. This is why Yuan is only 5th in currency reserve in the world with only 2.7% with almost all that happening in Hong Kong. Not difficult to comprehend but I guess relevant username explains it all
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  648.  @kurosai006ichigo3  "our saying china debt traps by offering bad loans... China did not force any nation to accept their loans" They paid the leaders off. Why do you think the loans from SeeSeePee have no transparency? Nobody knows the details except the authoritarian leader they traded with. Vice News has a nice video where they literally caught on a video an operation to pay off the VP and high ranking officials in Guyana (South America). >China get an influenced vote in UN as its requirement They get votes in support
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  649.  @kurosai006ichigo3  on the UN influence they get. Do you like 2 million + innocent being detained and tortured?
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  650.  @commie5211  "yeah right China accounted for 28.7% Global Manufacturing Output" So you are not aware that trade also includes natural resources? And agriculture? Services? Just an FYI, US is 13.5% of all global trade and China is 10%.
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  651.  @commie5211  ​ It's very clear that @Commie actually has little understanding of any of this. How is Beijing treating you today?
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  652.  Larry Bimak  how are US and Iran not enemies? Iran is helping Russia in the war in Ukraine.
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  653.  Larry Bimak  Israel wasn’t sending weapons to Russia once the war started. Or you got a source and Info?
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  654.  Larry Bimak  why hasn’t Iran attacked the nuclear armed nation that defeated many Arab countries in a war with superior weapons , Israel?
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  655.  @sjv9147s  the small Ukraine that didn’t have an army 9 years ago with limited 2nd tier US weapons has been defeating Russia over the past 2 months and slowly pushing out Russia and you’re saying that US weapons aren’t superior? Lol! Ukraine wasn’t given any serious airplanes, the Himars missiles they have are limited to 50 miles (300 miles is capable with other missiles), and Ukraine hasn’t received any advance drones or tanks from the US.
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  656.  Mohamed Nazer  source US is buying South Korean weapons? South Korea gets much of its weapons from the US. And US pushing for peace talks not because it’s getting costly for the US. The US has spent $20 billion on Ukraine which like 3% of the IS total military budget.
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  657. You burn isn’t even 20 years old w7ma0. This is not the go to from Chinese nationalist —“no problem with Chinas economy because many have been saying Chinas economy will collapse for years so it therefore isn’t possible”.
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  658.  @hallarious506  just another w8ma0 denying the issues china faces because they believe the CCP is perfect
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  659.  @jumpinggoldagatito9153  for some reason your comment doesn’t show. I hate YT. Certain words or phrases are getting comments removed
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  660.  @tsubadaikhan6332  I mostly agree with that statement . The Republican Party was more libertarian in some aspect but now their main focus more nationalism, more cultural war, more federal government telling states what they can or cannot do.
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  661.  @PacificSeaBass  individual polls don’t matter, aggregate polling is most important. He’s at 41% in latest aggregate polling from 538
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  662.  @PacificSeaBass  what pain and suffering is attributed to Biden? Did he ban abortion? Did he lead Jan 6 insurrection?
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  663.  @PacificSeaBass  attempting at destroying democracy isn’t a big deal for you???
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  664.  @PacificSeaBass  most of what you say has little impact on life in 2022. Other parts are typical right wing support of Russia by saying the US should stay out of it. Here is some news for you, Putin is Lucifer. You’re boy Donald loves him but Putin is Lucifer
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  665.  @dthrust9037  border crossers usually have black people and that’s a big reason why it’s a big deal for you?
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  666.  @ChuckAmadi  so those Donbass separatist don’t gain experience? I’m having trouble understanding how Ukraine benefited heavily but Russia or pro Russia soldiers didn’t. Perhaps pro Russian fighters weee just fighting defensive — trench fighting and didn’t learn Anything else? I don’t know, this whole argument never made sense. For sure urkriane learned but I don’t know how Russia and separatist didn’t also learn.
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  667.  @tavdy79  so where are those separatist now? I’m having trouble understanding how Ukrainians learned a lot from it but the people they fought learned very little. And that war since 2014 was mostly just trench warfare with relatively limited weapons compared to what Ukraine has now. My only guess is that Ukraine didn’t learn enough to Surpass Russia in knowledge but they just learned the basics — they started with essentially zero military in 2014. So let’s russia was a 70/100 in fighting knowledge and Ukraine was 0/100 in 2014. But are start of war of Feb 2022, Russia was still at 70 but Ukraine was 50/100. Then US intel and western weapons pushed Ukraine to a 75/100 today.
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  668.  @johnrock7255  I agree, the US should have let Japan destroy China. The world would be much better today.
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  669.  @MrJdsenior  POOTler. I'm using that now along with Ruzzia.
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  670. I’m totally going to believe someone who subscribes to far right wing YouTubers. FYI, dinesh d'souza is a spreader or false news and info..pushing nothing but conspiracy theories
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  671.  @Nethan2000  The founding fathers applied the second amendment only to the federal government and states would be able to choose their own gun laws. That only changed in 2008 and 2010 as a very conservative court rewrote gun history and re-interpreted the 2A to now apply to the states and no longer justified for needing a militia but for self defense. Don’t trust the conservatives
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  672.  @GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket  U out of loop?? Europe has put sanctions on Russia and has out forth a plan to rid Europe of Russia energy imports.
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  673.  @bakimc4722  Can trust the US 100x more than RUS or CN.
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  674.  @lvd8122  sure, that would be clever and good but if the government is corrupt, they won’t do that. My point is that a country willing to partner with Norway and get assistance on this is a government that isn’t corrupt in the first place.
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  675.  @gregducati999  actually, how you build the infrastructure matters. If the leader takes a 10% cut, that’s stealing from the people. Stop defending China and bribing.
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  676.  @didyoumissedmegobareatersk2204  another w8ma0 has arrived
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  677.  @tiagogomes3807  I can’t find anything about England and not actually owning land but leasing it from the government. Do you a source or detail?
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  678.  @jayl878  I’ve been to several parts of China and more than half probably won’t last 70 years. I noticed lots of empty buildings. In one location there were maybe 30 nearly identical buildings all around 25-35 floors high. In the evening I noticed only about 20% of the units had light. Heck, I’d say 1/3 of the holdings looked completely empty or nearly empty. I was told those building had been completed about 7 years earlier.
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  679.  @jayl878  construction from after about 2010 appear to be better quality but the homes built before seem to be in need of major repair after 10-20 years.
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  680.  @jayl878  the older ones are most certainly worse. They were building like crazy through 2014ish so since then it’s slowed down and I think there have been more regulations on housing construction. My ex s/o is from there but it’s been a year since we broke up. I don’t know what they think of the situation in 2022. I was last there early 2020 and had been there around 2017. The numerous empty buildings shocked me. Kumming had what appeared to be several dozen high rises on the outer edge of the city. Who’s going to want to move there? The Chinese love the dense urban cores of city. These 30+ buildings all looked completed yet empty but I only saw it from the major highway a km away.
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  681.  ANTI-$TAT€  trump was bad but these communist want to try to equate it to Trump. Trump didn’t try to get rid of congress himself. It was his supporters in an attempt that clearly had no power to it unlike Castillo who has so much power in his actions as he literally tried to remove congress with his presidential powers.
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  682.  @tnickknight  he pushed them in to the capitol. Castillo cut out all the worthless attempt of having a thousand people attempt the coup and tried to actually do a coup with his powers. Are you seriously arguing that it would have been less Evil if trump decided to remove all of congress and have unlimited power than to do what he did - anger a crowd and send them to the capitol?
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  683.  @solveigvan808  it would be more like comparing chipotle and McDonald’s, both are fast food but different foods. They do compete and people make a decision “should I do lunch at McDonald’s or Chipotle” just like they do “should I watch a Netflix movies/series or watch YouTube”. Of course there are even closer competitors like McDonald’s vs Burger King or Netflix vs HBO but watching more YouTube does lead to watching less Netflix and vice versa.
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  684. So what you’re saying is thousands of years of China bullying all its neighbors is okay but 100 years of China being Bullied by others is wrong and then Mao treating his people badly is the fault of others? And with all that, it excuses China being a bully today?
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  685.  @greenman8  Pete is the future but he’s too Young. Was only 38??
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  686. If you knew anything about Alaska is that it’s not anywhere near as environmentally hospitable to humans as Norway is. That’s why only 700,000 people live in the whole state vs 5.4 million in norway despite Alaska being 5x bigger. The state actually pays people to move to Alaska!
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  687. You a vvumao?
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  688.  @jeffs4483  The map says there are over 20 countries and over 30 countries + territories in Latin America. Or 32 countries and many other sovereign territories in the Americas south of the US.
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